Re: GNADE still alive?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Thomas Løcke <thomas@12boo.net> writes:

> On 04/24/2012 08:45 PM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> SQLite is not the same today as it were back in 2007 and neither is
> PostgreSQL.

As long as any the API is backward-compatible, GNADE is still usefull. 

It might be _more_ useful if it was extended to cover any new features
in the backends.

When I adopted the Debian GNADE package, I looked at the changes in the
back-end APIs over time (several releases for each). MySQL often had
non-backward compatible changes, while SQLite and PostgreSQL did not. So
I dropped MySQL, because I did not have time to maintain it.

That said, I have not reviewed any recent changes in these backends to
look for backward compatibility issues.

That is a big problem with hand-generated Ada bindings for libraries. We
really should switch GNADE to use --fdump-ada-spec; that would automate
this check.

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