Re: Standard DBI Proposal

On Oct 29, 5:32 am, "Donal K. Fellows"
<donal.k.fell...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
tom.rmadilo wrote:

I have followed this thread with a slight interest. As with the
original poster, I find the lack of an ODBC driver on non-Windows
platforms a bit of a concern. The thread, however, seems to have
evolved into something else: an SQL layer over just such an ODBC
driver.

Am I missing something? Why not work on a driver first and the
simplification layer later? While we are at that, what is wrong with
the ODBC interface? (It is not OO is not a valid argument.) ODBC has
worked for ages and is universally available. Further, any attempt to
hide/objectify/replicate the full SQL standards seems besides the
point; especially without also providing the capacity a driver
provides to connect to databases.


I would focus on availability and stability of the basic ODBC driver
first.


PS. Yes, PostgreSQL and SQLite may have native Tcl libraries but they
also have ODBC drivers as well which are used far more often.



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