Hi Andreas, On Fri, 30. Mar 2012 at 13:29:28 +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote: >> Anyway, the MSSQL provider uses QODBC and the Oracle provider could do >> the same. So we wouldn't need to directly link or ship anything from >> Oracle.
> Does ODBC mean that there is no requirement that Oracle client libraries > are installed on the client machine (instant client or regular client?) - > or would this still be a requirement? Well, to use it you'd need an ODBC driver - but we wouldn't need to ship (and link) one. > Would users of the Oracle client need to install a system or user DSN or > does QODBC not require such an entry? I think so. Not sure there is an option to get away without a DSN. QOCI would be another option - that would require Qt to be built with OCI support - not sure if that'd impose a licensing problem, given that Qt is LGPL now. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de IRC: jef on FreeNode committ(ed|ing) to Quantum GIS -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
