Well. Believe it or not, I still use the classic environment for a number of
reasons:
1. Quadra 840av still useful
2. Inadquate multi-lingual support on OSX
a. carbon apps work in osx only
3. Cannot do screen-shots of DVD movies.
4. Buggy performance in Classic under OSX
5. Some apps are slooooooooow in Classic under OSX
Perhaps OpenBase on OSX and Classic client access might be a solution. But
I am curious about FreeTDS. Perhaps FreeTDS can be used to access MS SQL
database. There's GUSI that can be used for POSIX compliant assisting
in porting apps. I would not know how to get DBI to work though if FreeTDS
was working.
ciao,
Joaquin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keary Suska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:37 PM
> To: macnerd; 'MacPerl List'
> Subject: Re: [MacPerl] INTRO Thingy
>
>
> on 3/11/02 9:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
>
> > That's pretty bad. The Mac does have some sort of ODBC from
> > Merant. Though when I tried to even connect to an Oracle
> > server (which works from UNIX and Win), from the ODBC drivers
> > I was out of luck. I don't know if Merant even cares. :-(
>
> AFAIK, the Merant drivers are no longer maintained or
> supported for the Mac
> platform. No surprise there.
>
> > I guess someone would have to port the FreeTDS stuff to the
> > Mac for Syb/MS-SQL access. And Oracle apparently maintains
> > Oracle interface on the Mac, but I don't know how to get it.
> > Of course there's FileMaker, but that'll be sloooooooooow.
> > Lastly there's OpenLink.
>
> The issue isn't ODBC, per se. ODBC is just a layer on top of an actual
> database driver. But it doesn't help any if you don't have
> the drivers.
> There are ports of MySQL and Postgres to the Mac, but as far
> as I know they
> only work under RealBasic, and the MySQL port costs real
> money (no freeware
> there).
>
> I agree that is sucks to not have drivers for common
> databases (there are,
> actually, a few that have Mac drivers such as FrontBase), and
> now that Mac
> OS X is out I don't think there will be any motivation to do
> so. I guess
> when OS X becomes the de facto Mac standard, all of these
> issues will go
> away.
>
> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>
