Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 05/14/2016 03:41 AM, jrmarino wrote:
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> Guys, nobody has to use this.  I created it for me because none of the
> existing ones were satisfactory *to me*.  It's under a permissive license.
> I'm just sharing.  I get the idea that people are posting opinions without
> actually reviewing the documention (which I spent many many hours writing).
> In any case, all I am doing is letting people know a new non-copyleft option
> exists with the assumption that some people will be interested.

I haven't looked at this, but I'd like to thank you for your effort. Accessing 
DBs is a difficult problem, given the many mismatches between Ada and SQL, but 
one that must frequently be addressed. We have no agreement on good ways to do 
it. Maybe we never will, but having multiple approaches might help reach some 
consensus, or at least increase the chances of a project being able to find an 
existing approach that seems right to them.

My experience is that you should completely hide the fact that you're using an 
external DB. Anything else leads to dependencies that bite you when you try to 
change the actual storage, as frequently happens. No binding achieves that for you.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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