Арестов Дмитрий wrote: > Why waste efforts on RPM packaging and other meaningless things?
It's not a waste, if somebody wants to do it, let him to do it. Perhaps he don't want or can not contribute in any other way and, perhaps, some users will find these packages helpful. > Why aim on unimportant while missing the essence? It's volunteer based project, everybody is free as a wild pig to contribute in any way she likes :-) Make your own priorities and get them done. > I mean - where did the ODBC backend go? Nowhere, it's still in CVS repo. > I downloaded the 3.0 release > and I was surprised discovering that the ODBC backend is missing. Yes, this is correct. I don't like this situation too. However, ODBC backend is not ready to be called stable. > In fact, ODBC is the most important backend to support, ...in your opinion. And this is OK. > since it provide universal access, *regardless* of DBMS used. Please note that SOCI is not a wrapper around ODBC. > In version 2.2 the main > disadvantage was lack of blob support in ODBC backend, but in next > version the whole backend disappeared. I understand you may not like this situation, however ODBC needs substantial amount of work, but man power is limited. You are welcome to improve this situation. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Soci-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users
