[[lazarus] Delphi/TSE, Lazarus/X]

[Lothian, Nicholas (ETSA)]

I have some free Oracle components (for Delphi) with source written by
someone else, with a few mods by me. 

They're not great (no parameter passing or anything), but they are a
start. They are pretty fast, too.

Most interestingly, they have the OCI headers (for 7.3) translated into
Pascal. The comments are in Russian, though. *S*

If anyone is interested in them, they are welcome to do some work on
them.

Nick Lothian

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>From:
>	michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be[SMTP:michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be]
>Sent: 	Thursday, 22 July 1999 6:18
>To: 	lazarus at miraclec.com
>Subject: 	Re: [[lazarus] Delphi/TSE, Lazarus/X]
>
>
>
>On 21 Jul 1999, Michal Bukovjan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> everything written for X should have remote functionality, as the
>>"remoteness"
>> is handled directly by the X libraries and the app itself does not need to
>> know about on what computer is running.
>> 
>> That means, for example, GTK is written for X, therefore it is remote (for
>> display purposes}. It is very transaprent for the application programmer.
>> 
>> As for DB connectivity for Linux, I am not sure it is even in design stage
>> yet, although I am considering taking part on this (as a part of my PhD
>>grade
>> studies, when noone else/better is available :-)
>> 
>> I think if you stick to TDataset interface and will not be using much of
>>the
>> Interbase/BDE specific stuff, there should be little problems in porting
>>once
>> the DB stuff is finished. And who knows, there may be a day when
>> Borland/Inprise releases BDE+Interbase link under GPL !
>> 
>> And moreover, should you use FreeIB components or something like this, hey,
>>I
>> think these are open source, so I do not see much problems in porting these
>
>1) The interbase headers are ported, and availble on the FPC web site;
>2) TDataset is being implemented by me; once I have some basic functionality
>   running (e.g. read-only data access) then I will publish the code;
>   you're more than welcome to join me then.
>   As a first 2 possible descendents I am playing with
>   1) A MySQl descendent (one is available already)
>   2) A 'file of record' TDataset interface, as featured in Delphi 4's 
>      programmers guide.
>
>Michael.
>
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