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-Thread: 103376,2efc07c562a92932 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!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:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & Postgresql References: <2prmojFo9eo1U1@uni-berlin.de> <5ad0dd8a.0409060736.42b6ab59@posting.google.com> <41558E1D.7080502@snafu.de> <1096538164.509614@yasure> In-Reply-To: <1096538164.509614@yasure> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:09:35 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1096906075 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:07:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:07:55 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4667 Date: 2004-10-04T12:09:35-04:00 List-Id: Benjamin Ketcham wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG 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