From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Ada & Postgresql
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:09:35 -0400
Date: 2004-10-04T12:09:35-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vze8d.10011$jj2.455307@news20.bellglobal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096538164.509614@yasure>
Benjamin Ketcham wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
>>Pascal Obry wrote:
>>
>>>On GNU/Linux Debian that's quite easy!
>>>
>>> $ apt-get install odbc-postgresql
>>> $ apt-get install unixodbc
>>> $ apt-get install unixodbc-dev
>>
>>Debian is fine for those using it. But what about *BSD, Solaris and
>>HP-UX users for example?
>
> The nice thing about Debian .deb packages is that they are actually
> just old-school "ar" archives. "ar -x", then you are left with
> a few regular tar.gz files and an install script (which you may
> wish to read, rather than run).
That is a nice way to do it.
> Of course, you'd want to grab the source, rather than the binary,
> packages. And extracting the files is of course only the first
> step; whether the code is actually portable to those other platforms
> is a completely different question...
>
> --Benjamin
Which was really my point. It is easier to get users up and running
with fewer prerequisites than many. Advanced users can work through
most issues with enough patience (though not all have the time or
patience ;-)
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 17:09 Ada & Postgresql Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-03 20:51 ` Adrian Knoth
2004-09-04 11:41 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-04 13:50 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-06 8:42 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 9:13 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 9:44 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 10:10 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 10:57 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 11:37 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 11:54 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <413C4FFE.1010105@netcabo.pt>
2004-09-06 12:03 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 12:43 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 12:54 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-06 13:17 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 13:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-09-06 14:33 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-09-06 15:18 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2004-09-06 11:36 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 12:56 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 13:12 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 15:20 ` Björn Persson
[not found] ` <413C318E.9050709@netcabo.pt>
2004-09-06 10:00 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-06 10:27 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 11:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-09-07 7:02 ` Jerry van Dijk
2004-09-07 8:31 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-09-06 15:36 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-09-17 1:42 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-25 15:26 ` Michael Erdmann
2004-09-25 19:03 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-29 20:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-29 21:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-30 9:56 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-10-04 16:09 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
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