Re: Qt Ada database support?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Jun 12, 12:54 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> Emmanuel Briot <briot.emman...@gmail.com> writes:
> > The GNAT Components Collection (gnatcoll) was released some time ago
> > and is part of the public release. Among a lot of other goodies, it
> > includes the GNATCOLL.SQL hierarchy of packages, which abstract the
> > DBMS backend, while providing additional features, like Ada
> > subprograms to write syntactically correct queries, local caches of
> > query results, type safety,...
> > We had published a paper at Ada Europe 2008 about it.
>
> There is interesting stuff in that collection.
>
> I guess I should read the proceedings of the Ada Europe conferences;
> looks like they'll be available on-line in a few monthshttp://www.ada-europe.org/AUJ/index.html
>
> > The last release only includes support for postgresSQL, but we
> > recently added support for sqlite3 (which by the way required a major
> > redesign of the API).
>
> It is difficult to design a "generic multi-backend API" when you only
> have one backend!
>
> > Adding mysql is part of the plan and should be rather easy now.
>
> > You could look into that (either by accessing the public subversion
> > repositories, or through your usual support contract)
>
> This is for home stuff, so I don't want to do it thru my support
> contract. I'll see if I can access the public repository; that will be
> my first use of subversion (I went straight from CVS to monotone :).

You can keep using monotone if you want.  I mirror AdaCore's
repository into Ada-France's monotone database. Gnatcoll is currently
part of GPS (branch com.adacore.gps) in subdirectory gnatlib/src.

When I get around to upgrading GPS in Debian, I'll see if I can
produce separate binary packages of gnatcoll (i.e. libgnatcoll-dev,
libgnatcoll0, libgnatcoll-dbg and perhaps libgnatcoll-doc) from the
sources. Anyone willing to help?

--
Ludovic Brenta.