I know it's not extinct, its webpage even has news from June this year. :)
But what I mean is that it "didn't catch" the audience that maybe was expected.
I don't know how good is to have a pure Smalltalk driver either, not
in terms of maintenance*, but in terms of performance, memory, etc.
I'm happy to have it, and until something replaces it, it's better to
keep it maintaned, but I was thinking in the long term.
Regards!
Esteban A. Maringolo
2013/12/12 Guillermo Polito <
[hidden email]>:
> Well, first, I don't know the original motivation for opendbx... Maybe
> Norbert wanted to (sort of) decouple his C application from a specific
> driver. The thing is that it's not simple to track its users.
>
> Then, alive as "it compiles and it works in latest versions of OSs", it is
> :). I did the whole compilation for the three platforms and drivers about a
> month ago.
>
> On the other side, alive as "it is adding new features from time to time",
> it's not. Maybe because database drivers do not evolve also too much, nor
> they change their API. The latest changes, from about a year ago were some
> bugfixes to ODBC and fixing some compilation stuff for windowze.
>
> Following EstebanL's comment, we would like to get completely rid of it, but
> so far it's useful to connect to databases that otherwise we couldn't, like
> oracle. For other vendors, such as Mysql or PGsql, there are the pure
> smalltalk versions of the drivers, which are probably better from the
> maintenance point of view.
>
> Guille
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> is not incredibly used, but it is not completely dead :)
>>
>> anyway... one of our many many projects is to drop opendbx (by moving that
>> layer to pharo itself)... but that's for the future (probably far future).
>>
>> Esteban
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo
>> <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> As a side question about my dependency issues...
>>>
>>> Is the OpenDBX project still active? Not its Smalltalk side, I mean...
>>> the core project.
>>>
>>> To me it seems like it was a great attempt to have something similar
>>> to ODBC but for all platforms.
>>> But I'm not seeing a wide usage of it in the wild.
>>>
>>> Seems like everybody else is happy with their JDBC, DBI and similar
>>> "DB layers" on the language side.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Esteban A. Maringolo
>>>
>>
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