Yes, you're right, I'll remove it and "link" straight to the lib, it was something I did in the beginning of the process when I was unsure of how transparently I could pass references to structs around.
As it turned out it's completely seamless so your suggestion makes perfect sense, or be my guest and do it yourself if you're anxious, I won't have time until next weekend, feel free to copy whatever you like from me. On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Alexander Williams <a...@unscramble.co.jp> wrote: > Henrik this is great!! > > I've been looking for something like this but it was a little lower on my > priority list. Thank you! > > I find it interesting that you wrote some C to initiate the mysql connection > Would it be easier to do it in PicoLisp and simply use libmysqlclient.so ? > > On 2015-04-27, at 6:00 AM, Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi list, I'm announcing this at a very early stage, earlier than I >> would like to, in case someone else is also thinking about doing a >> MySQL wrapper, to avoid duplicate work. >> >> I'm not doing this because I think that MySQL is in any way a better >> alternative than the native DB functionality, rather the opposite. >> >> The main reasoning is that it might help adoption of the language as >> I've come to believe that how the data is stored could be as big a >> hurdle to switch as the language switch itself - for many >> organisations - if they can keep their data as it is (to begin with) >> half the battle might already be won. >> >> PicoLisp with MySQL is still better than say PHP with MySQL. >> >> It also helps in migrating from MySQL to the native DB. >> >> It's all inspired by Alex Williams' nice and instructive use of the >> native stuff here: http://aw.github.io/picolisp//2015/02/22/nanomsg/ >> >> And I couldn't have managed without AB's writeup here: >> http://software-lab.de/doc/native.html >> >> Without further ado: >> https://bitbucket.org/hsarvell/ext/src/default/mysql.l?at=default >> >> Note that you can't just run with the file linked to above, you need >> the mysql.so file in the ext/so folder too. >> >> If no one beats me to it I will do some more work on this one in the >> future and will announce here when there's something to show. >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subjectUnsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
