Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_odbc on Win32
Hello all, I could try to add this module to my Win32-OpenACS distribution. Anyhow I would just compile the module. I've no time to test its actual behavior nor to properly support it. It would be a take as is and compile thing. Cheers, Maurizio -Original Message- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:aolser...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of Tom Jackson Sent: 10 September 2009 6:18 PM To: AOLSERVER@listserv.aol.com Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_odbc on Win32 Hopefully someone with a windows setup will take this up, or maybe a new module can be added without the need to merge with the old version. ODBC on windows is potentially much more useful than on *nix since everything it seems can be an ODBC datasource. Updating AOLserver to include a more complete ODBC/SQL CLI adapter would be a good long term goal for this community, the only real issue is that the current ns_db API works so well, or is easy enough to adapt to, it is not easy to justify the pain for the marginal gain. tom jackson On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Scott Goodwinsc...@scottg.net wrote: Joe did this work during last year's Tcl conference when he couldn't get ns_odbc to compile on his Windows laptop so he could use it during a tutorial. I'm certain he based the changes on the version of ns_odbc in CVS at that time, and I think the changes were mostly to the build process (Makefile). He did not add or delete any functionality; he just got it to compile with a newer Microsoft compiler. He sent me the changes but his message was promptly buried in the dog pile that is my inbox and I haven't even unpacked and looked at what he's done. Though I could try and merge the changes myself, I have zero Windows dev experience and no Windows systems at home or work to build and test it on (and no interest in moving in that direction). But I figured I'd make the changes available to the list so that others would have the opportunity to do the merge, build, test and commit for the rest of the community that runs AOLserver on Windows. /s. On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: I wonder what the changes were. This driver is missing several API: select and dml (it has exec which can handle both by itself, so maybe they were removed). I have a more complete driver for unixodbc which includes transaction support, and a shutdown callback. If the changes are not that difficult, maybe I could apply them to this version as well (probably a different file for windows). It may not be possible, I can see some internal API differences. Both drivers seem to be derived from a common source Here's the current version of nsunixodbc: http://www.junom.com/gitweb/gitweb.perl?p=nsunixodbc.git;a=tree;hb=18d7 Unfortunately I have nothing setup on windows. tom jackson On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Scott Goodwinsc...@scottg.net wrote: Joe Mistachkin did some work on ns_odbc (almost a year ago) to get it to compile with newer Microsoft compilers; I've attached the relevant files if someone with Windows experience wants to diff and merge the changes into the module and check-in to AOLserver CVS. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. /s. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_odbc on Win32
Joe did this work during last year's Tcl conference when he couldn't get ns_odbc to compile on his Windows laptop so he could use it during a tutorial. I'm certain he based the changes on the version of ns_odbc in CVS at that time, and I think the changes were mostly to the build process (Makefile). He did not add or delete any functionality; he just got it to compile with a newer Microsoft compiler. He sent me the changes but his message was promptly buried in the dog pile that is my inbox and I haven't even unpacked and looked at what he's done. Though I could try and merge the changes myself, I have zero Windows dev experience and no Windows systems at home or work to build and test it on (and no interest in moving in that direction). But I figured I'd make the changes available to the list so that others would have the opportunity to do the merge, build, test and commit for the rest of the community that runs AOLserver on Windows. /s. On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: I wonder what the changes were. This driver is missing several API: select and dml (it has exec which can handle both by itself, so maybe they were removed). I have a more complete driver for unixodbc which includes transaction support, and a shutdown callback. If the changes are not that difficult, maybe I could apply them to this version as well (probably a different file for windows). It may not be possible, I can see some internal API differences. Both drivers seem to be derived from a common source Here's the current version of nsunixodbc: http://www.junom.com/gitweb/gitweb.perl? p=nsunixodbc.git;a=tree;hb=18d7 Unfortunately I have nothing setup on windows. tom jackson On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Scott Goodwinsc...@scottg.net wrote: Joe Mistachkin did some work on ns_odbc (almost a year ago) to get it to compile with newer Microsoft compilers; I've attached the relevant files if someone with Windows experience wants to diff and merge the changes into the module and check-in to AOLserver CVS. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. /s. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_odbc on Win32
Hopefully someone with a windows setup will take this up, or maybe a new module can be added without the need to merge with the old version. ODBC on windows is potentially much more useful than on *nix since everything it seems can be an ODBC datasource. Updating AOLserver to include a more complete ODBC/SQL CLI adapter would be a good long term goal for this community, the only real issue is that the current ns_db API works so well, or is easy enough to adapt to, it is not easy to justify the pain for the marginal gain. tom jackson On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Scott Goodwinsc...@scottg.net wrote: Joe did this work during last year's Tcl conference when he couldn't get ns_odbc to compile on his Windows laptop so he could use it during a tutorial. I'm certain he based the changes on the version of ns_odbc in CVS at that time, and I think the changes were mostly to the build process (Makefile). He did not add or delete any functionality; he just got it to compile with a newer Microsoft compiler. He sent me the changes but his message was promptly buried in the dog pile that is my inbox and I haven't even unpacked and looked at what he's done. Though I could try and merge the changes myself, I have zero Windows dev experience and no Windows systems at home or work to build and test it on (and no interest in moving in that direction). But I figured I'd make the changes available to the list so that others would have the opportunity to do the merge, build, test and commit for the rest of the community that runs AOLserver on Windows. /s. On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: I wonder what the changes were. This driver is missing several API: select and dml (it has exec which can handle both by itself, so maybe they were removed). I have a more complete driver for unixodbc which includes transaction support, and a shutdown callback. If the changes are not that difficult, maybe I could apply them to this version as well (probably a different file for windows). It may not be possible, I can see some internal API differences. Both drivers seem to be derived from a common source Here's the current version of nsunixodbc: http://www.junom.com/gitweb/gitweb.perl?p=nsunixodbc.git;a=tree;hb=18d7 Unfortunately I have nothing setup on windows. tom jackson On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Scott Goodwinsc...@scottg.net wrote: Joe Mistachkin did some work on ns_odbc (almost a year ago) to get it to compile with newer Microsoft compilers; I've attached the relevant files if someone with Windows experience wants to diff and merge the changes into the module and check-in to AOLserver CVS. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. /s. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
