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!meganewsservers.com!feeder2.on.meganewsservers.com!feed.cgocable.net!read2.cgocable.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:56:32 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.150.168.167 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cogeco.ca X-Trace: read2.cgocable.net 1096491295 24.150.168.167 (Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:54:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:54:55 EDT Organization: Cogeco Cable Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4405 Date: 2004-09-29T16:56:32-04:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > Michael Erdmann 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.