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From: Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada & Postgresql
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:26:21 +0200
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> We used APQ, with MySQL, but PostgreSQL was its primary database, and
>> found it to be very high quality, with outstanding documentation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wojtek
> 
> 
> One of the primary reasons for me to write APQ was to make it as easy
> as it can be to use a database from Ada, without discarding strong
>......
> My biggest concern however is always application deployment. I can
> make just about anything work for myself. Making an open sourced
> package easy for someone else to install and use is more difficult.
> This is the main reason I stayed away from UNIXODBC. This is less
> of an issue on Windows, but I never really felt that ODBC was the
> way to go anyway. APQ only requires GNAT, and the database software
> client libraries (libpq or the mysql libraries). This makes it
> much easier to deploy than GNADE for example.

THis confusyse me a litle bit. On Windows ODBC work within
some Minutes (on Linux it takes mutch longer).

What is so difficult to deploy?

Regards
     M.Erdmann