[lazarus] db components

[Shane Miller]

Just to keep me informed on every aspect of Lazarus, I wouldn't mind if you
posted the discussion here, but simply put in the subject "Database
discussion" or something for those not interested.

Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: d0hb0y <d0hb0y at lynq.com>
To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [lazarus] db components


>Rick,
>
>I would like to discuss Database interactions further if you decide to
>pursue this project.  My job is primarily database application development
>as well, although since I work in Visual Basic I may have some interesting
>ideas to throw into the mix as well.
>
>I would love to see myths like bound controls implemented correctly in my
>lifetime -- and M$ after 7 years of promising Bound Controls has failed to
>grasp how to do them correctly in a wan environment. Anyway I do not want
>to shoot this list server off onto a tangent, we could probably fill a
>whole other list server with database ideas.  In fact, if anyone is
>interested in brainstorming some database interface ideas in lazarus, I'd
>be willing to set up a listserver here for that purpose.
>
>== Ron
>
>At 08:43 AM 6/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Has anyone started on db components yet? I have yet to get a working copy
>>of the project yet so that I can really find out, so I thought I would
ask.
>>
>>What direction is it taking / would it take? I have been looking iodbc and
>>unixodbc a bit, and have come across a few references about kde and gnome
>>might be including iodbc, or a dirivative thereof, in the future.  The
>>iodbc, is, I believe, supposed to be source compatible with MS's odbc
spec.
>>
>>This is of prime importance to me, much more so than your debate over
where
>>to base your controls, in GTK or QT.  My job is to do 'database
>>development', which I do in Delphi. I would like, very much for my delphi
>>code to continue on into the Linux environment.
>>
>>Since this is my area of experience, I am willing to devote some of my
time
>>to this part of the project, though it would probably only be a couple of
>>hours a week. I am slow, but I think I can contribute. Besides, I have
>>several problems with Delphi's implementation of TTable and TQuery, such
as
>>they don't implement the 'recno' property for SQL databases like they
>>should. That would have been a tremendous help in my current project.
>>
>>Rick Dawson
>>
>>
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