Hi Patrick, Monty, One other thing to note is that the new libdrizzle isn't just about a new C library, it's about a new protocol as well. The old library interface (and dependent modules) will break completely once that happens. I'm hoping to have the client and server speaking the new protocol sometime in December.
-Eric On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:35:04AM -0200, Monty Taylor wrote: > Patrick Galbraith wrote: > > Monty, > > > > I was hoping to start off with using the existing so that there is > > something working sooner than later. There's enough work just working on > > that. Having to use a whole new client library most likely means a > > complete rewrite, something that might be a bit tough despite all my > > copious spare free time I have while writing a book and working a job ;) > > > > What I'd like to do, is get something that works sooner than later, > > buying me time to write something with the new library. > > Ok. Fair enough. Makes sense to me. > > FWIW, Eric and I have been planning on getting some wrappers to his new > lib using Swig right off the bat. We can pop out one for perl as an > intermediate step, too. Also, since you are good with the Perl/C stuff, > if might be interesting to walk through the swig C wrapper code that it > makes with you (in your even more free time) and see if you have > suggestions/feedback to give to the swig people. Obviously, that wrapper > won't implement DBI, so it's still not actually a full win... but it's > really no extra effort for us ... > > Eric's lib is coming along nicely. You can check it out at > lp:~eday/drizzle/new_client_lib > > > What is the status of Eric's library? Also, what happened to the BIND > > struct I mentioned? Is the current libdrizzle supporting prepared > > statements still? > > Nope. Prepared statements gone everywhere. (ding dong the witch is dead) > > > --Patrick > > > > Monty Taylor wrote: > >> Hey Patrick... > >> > >> You might be better off working with Eric Day's new libdrizzle at this > >> point... I think it's going to be the winner anyway... > >> > >> Monty > >> > >> Patrick Galbraith wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> One more question: > >>> What happened to st_drizzle_bind/DRIZZLE_BIND ? > >>> > >>> Thankx, > >>> > >>> Patrick > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
