Tantalus Tests

Colin Putney cputney at whistler.com
Sun Dec 15 23:21:18 UTC 2002


On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 03:15  PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

> Diego,
>
> I struggled with ODBC along with Colin, and I'm quite certain that he's
> *not* suggesting that the problems were with your ODBC support for 
> Squeak
> - that's always worked great.  However, we've had a lot of problems 
> with
> buggy ODBC drivers, buggy ODBC driver managers, OS-X specific FFI 
> issues,
> and so on - these are the "many possible points of failure", and
> unfortunately, they aren't failures that you can fix.  I imagine the 
> ODBC
> situation is a lot better on Windows, but on other platforms, if 
> there's a
> native Squeak driver, I agree with Colin that I'll always choose that 
> over
> the (non-Squeak-related) hassles of ODBC.
>
> Avi

Diego,

Avi is exactly right. (Except that he forgot to mention dynamic loading 
problems under OS X.).

Your ODBC package has always worked just fine.  Sorry for the 
imprecision of my griping.

Colin




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