From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4798cdf5e1c2b226 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.205.123.140 with SMTP id gk12mr713430bkc.1.1335436373045; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Path: h15ni167434bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNADE still alive? References: <20565278.30.1335224824186.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbvd8> <82haw9gvcl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <4f96b20e$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <871undc6js.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <4f979174$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:32:50 -0400 Message-ID: <82wr52eqb1.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VCAtFBkjksFWFwzoX0HPcCXoARY= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: c3f8d4f992454e029e66129576 X-Received-Bytes: 1834 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-04-26T06:32:50-04:00 List-Id: Thomas Løcke 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. -- -- Stephe