On 05 Jul 2006, at 21:24, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Jul 05, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Peter De Berdt wrote:
It must be a very hard plug-in to get right, because the early
"slip-ups" from beta list members that accidently leaked info
about a new mysql plugin date back a very long time ago. Sorry,
couldn't help but being a bit sarcastic ;-)
Database plugin are some of the least documented and hardest to get
"right"
The vendors API can make that even harder
Yes, but all other established programming languages out there
(either web development or desktop development) support MySQL already
(and all other major databases), database-backed applications are a
pretty large market.
From what I've experienced, the only really reliable database
adapters for realbasic have always been third-party: OpenBase,
Valentina, PostGreSQL classes, SQLite from SQLabs (now part of
REALbasic). I had to use about every database REALbasic supports in
the Professional version back in the 5.5 days (and I don't think a
single plugin has changed since), all of them had their fair share of
problems: 4D was leaking a lot and didn't return doubles correctly
(fixed after two years, they compiled with a beta API, compiling with
the release classes in place and it was fixed, those little developer
annoyances ;-))), MySQL count wasn't working, resulting in an
additional query to the database and doesn't support the new pw
scheme, PostGreSQL just didn't do anything, ODBC was leaking, … I
still get the shivers thinking back to those days…
Don't get me wrong, I still really like REALbasic, but it sucked at
databases :-)
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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