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 12:14:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!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: <3F460E91.9040908@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:59:51 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1061578776 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:59:36 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:59:36 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41797 Date: 2003-08-22T14:59:51-04:00 List-Id: 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 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). Hope that helps. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg