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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 14:06:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> <3F460E91.9040908@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:59:11 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1061585936 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:58:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:58:56 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41802 Date: 2003-08-22T16:59:11-04:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > Marin David Condic wrote: > >> Isn't there already a binding to these databases? GNADE? (I've >> downloaded it but have not had time to actually unpack it and look at >> what it does) > > .... > >> MDC > > > For many people, GNADE is the right tool. For others it is not. > For example, I do not want the overhead/hassle of ODBC. GNADE also > is tailored for Embedded SQL, which is another approach (I don't > recall if it insists on ODBC, but it might). Finally, if you are > targeting software to people that don't have GNADE pre-installed, > GNADE is pretty large and can present many install related challenges. I forgot to mention that what soured me on it, was the difficulty of getting it to compile and install on other non-Linux platforms like FreeBSD (Intel & Alpha). This is an important factor to consider when you want UNIX portable Ada code. I also must support win32 (I don't know how GNADE does there). > I prefer to go the route of an object-oriented interface, that > requires a very light database infrastructure. You only need the > C library(ies) + 1 APQ binding to use database(s). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg