Re: Ada & Postgresql

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Pascal Obry wrote:
> Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
>>THis confusyse me a litle bit. On Windows ODBC work within
>>some Minutes (on Linux it takes mutch longer).
>>
>>What is so difficult to deploy?
> 
> On GNU/Linux Debian that's quite easy!
> 
> You have too add the proper ODBC support packages:
> 
>    $ apt-get install odbc-postgresql
>    $ apt-get install unixodbc
>    $ apt-get install unixodbc-dev
> 
> Then you need to register your DSN in ~/.odbc.ini. That's all. I agree that
> it is a bit easier on Windows but not that much I would say...
> 
> Pascal.

Debian is fine for those using it. But what about *BSD, Solaris and
HP-UX users for example?

Things have probably improved a lot since I started APQ. Documentation
for instance. At the time, I recall that documentation was one big
issue I had with UNIXODBC.

A big problem for me at the time was that it failed to install
on FreeBSD (I don't recall if this was UNIXODBC and/or GNADE).
Anyway, I couldn't live with it being broken there, and was
too busy to fix/get it fixed. And worse, I didn't want to spend
time helping other users to fix their problems with it, just
so that they could run any database applications I might write.

APQ only depends upon the database product, and thus installs
more readily on a variety of platforms. As I said to Michael
Erdmann in an email, at the time, I was prepared to use someone
else's hard work. Portability is very important to me however,
and I need something that works not only on Linux, but *BSD,
HP-UX, Solaris etc. This is the reason I have invested my time
in APQ.

Warren.