Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 702 - static linking for registry and dde

[Kevin K. <kev...@gm...>]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 9:27 PM Marc Culler <cul...@gm...> wrote:

> When faced with three different platform specific solutions to the same
> problem, I think one reasonable approach is to start by designing one
> abstraction that represents the important aspects of all three solutions
> and then to use the platform specific solutions to realize the
> abstraction.  An example of this sort of thing, found in a number of
> languages, is having one database abstraction that serves as a "frontend"
> which can be used with many different database "backends".
>

Tcl is among those languages.  TDBC provides native-API interfaces to
MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3, and the TDBC-to-ODBC bridge covers
numerous other databases, including SQL Server and Jet/MS Access.  All of
these share a common front end.

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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin