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Subject: Re: Qt Ada database support?
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:28:26 -0400
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10 Cze, 12:45, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
>
>> > You might be more lucky with this:
>>
>> >http://www.inspirel.com/soci-ada
>>
>> This is interesting. But it's based on a C++ library; I really don't
>> want more non-Ada code between me and my data.
>
> I have a bad news for you. The operating system, the database server
> and its native client library (including all possible layers for ODBC
> drivers) are non-Ada...

I know that. I said "more", not "any" :).

> Actually, the SOCI library omits the ODBC drivers, which are
> themselves non-trivial, on both server and client side. I never
> counted the volume, but I would not be surprised to see that SOCI
> implies much less of that non-Ada ugly thingy than ODBC, so you might
> be as well completely wrong with your judgements.

Good point. However, that is part of why I'm switching to SQLite;
those ODBC drivers require installation and administration, and I
can't figure out how to do that on Debian. I can figure out how to
install SQLite on Debian.

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-- Stephe