Re: Standard DBI Proposal

On Oct 30, 5:16 am, "Larry W. Virden" <lvir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 29, 11:17 am, "tom.rmadilo" <tom.rmad...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How do other scripting
languages do the connection on unix/linux?

I can't speak for how other languages do it.

They you aren't much helping here, what is your point?

However, if there is no
library, then someone with enough motivation to want one could always
create one. I mean, there wasn't a library like Tk before Dr. O and
his students wrote it...

Umm, there is a C library unixodbc, and another iodbc, plus commercial
ones. As pointed out above, maybe they are no longer maintained. So
the lack of motivation already exists for the library code. If you
want to direct your motivation at the Tcl level, it is totally
pointless without the C library. The lack of motivation at the C
library level is causing understandable concern for the library
users.

And my point was that if someone is motivated, maybe look around and
see how others have done it, but it isn't going to start at the Tcl
level, only an idiot would write a odbc library just for Tcl on non-
windows.

.

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