Re: [Tcl-tdbc] TDBC documentation, samples

[Kevin K. <kk...@ny...>]

Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I know I went out to http://tdbc.tcl.tk/ this morning, and found a
> minimal amount of info on the wiki. However, I noticed that when I
> built Tcl 8.6 cvs head (obtained from the activestate ftp site) there
> were 5 man pages tdbc.n, tdbc_connection.n,  tdbc_statement.n,
> tdbc_resultset.n,   tdbc_tokenize.n that are installed when I
> configured, built, and then installed the code in tcl/pkgs/tdbc/ .
> 
> I also note that there doesn't appear to be any drivers that are in
> the tcl 8.6 source distribution right now. When I poke around on the
> tdbc.tcl.tk site, I see a set of hyperlinks to code. However, I'm
> uncertain exactly how one gets the code .

Windows drivers are at http://preview.tinyurl.com/db2zw8 .

Unix users can build from the ZIP files, downloadable by following the
"If you're here to get the sources" instructions on the tdbc.tcl.tk
front page.

It's all still beta, of course.
> 
> Also, is anyone working on oracle or sybase drivers for tdbc yet? 
 > Just curious.

I don't know of any. I'm not the right one to do Sybase, since I don't
have access to a Sybase system and haven't used it in years. It's
certainly needed. (Is "SQL Server Native API" still enough like
Sybase that a common code base could be used for both?) A stopgap
would be to use the ODBC bridge.  A slightly better stopgap would
be to do a pure Tcl driver wrapped around sybtcl, much as the SQLite3
driver is wrapped around SQLite3's native binding.

Someone at the conference raised a hand when I asked if anyone was
planning an Oracle driver, and then I heard nothing further.

Really, people, I can't do it all myself!

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin