2009/9/3 Benoit St-Jean <[email protected]>

> Cool!
>
> If that's of any help, I volunteer to test your stuff on Windows XP (SP3)
> for both clients & RDBMS.  At the moment, I can test for MySQL, InterBase,
> SQL Server 2000.  But if you need it, I could take some time and set up a
> DB2 server and an Oracle server for the same platform.
>
>

That's why I love the community :)


> Cool!  Very very cool!
>
> Question : I know it's usually not recommended to test stuff that requires
> external output (such as setting up user, password, DSN, etc) but I think we
> should design a very simple database, on all those RDBMS and use SUnit to
> automate testing.  What do you guys think ?
>
>
I do that. I have 3 or 4 tables and all of the tests use those tables. They
are created and drop in every test so that not to have a side affect in
other tests.



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> *From:* "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]>
> *To:* "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:56:59 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Pharo-project] ODBCWarning
>
> Hello all,
>
> I think I have the catalog (tables and field name/type given a table name)
> working.  The latest ODBC offering appears to work, but in fairness to me,
> it does not work the same way it did (some time ago) when I crossed database
> access off of my potential-show-stopper list.
>
> Re the warnings about change of language, for some strange reason, I find
> it very easy to believe that this is a Microsoft idiosyncrasy and so I added
> a suitable #on:do: to capture the warning.  That could be bad though; better
> ideas are welcome.
>
> The problem I had going from Linux to Windows will probably persist.  Of
> course, I would like to see the startup/shutdown system revised to make such
> things easier to get right, after which it would hopefully become short work
> to fix.
>
> The ODBC package derives ODBCRow from IdentityDictionary and ODBCResultSet
> from Stream.  IMHO, it always seems cleaner to compose rather than inherit
> the limited functionality that the base class provides.  However, the
> inheritance is not really hurting anything here; socket addresses being
> inherited from byte arrays *is* hurting us.  I brushed up against that at
> one point, but was able to work around it.  When it gets between me and
> something I need, I will introduce an InternetAddress class and try to
> lazily resolve names and addresses, fix the printing, etc.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Schwab,Wilhelm K
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Pharo-project] ODBCWarning
>
> The porting continues...  It is getting closer to doing something.  It just
> raised an ODBCWarning about the server changing the language to us_english.
> Any ideas?  Either I do not care or should set it up front??
>
> One thing really surprised me, and note that I might have brought this on
> myself (though I think that is unlikely) by messing with startup and
> shutdown: the ODBCLibrary was stubbornly clinging to the Linux library from
> my home machine.  I finally used
>
>     ODBCLibrary default initialize.
>
> which seemed to put an end to the separation anxiety.  Is there a better
> fix?  I suppose I should try this in a clean image to see if there is really
> a problem therein, but that will be a little hard to do without a lot of my
> code, almost any of which either depends on changes I have made or could
> have caused the problem.
>
> Maybe I should ask whether some of you use ODBC on Windows and Linux and
> have no problems moving between the machines.
>
> Bill
>
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