OT: Dolphin smalltalk giving up

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Sun Aug 12 15:13:10 UTC 2007


Jan Hussaarts wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> If you need recent releases for a specific platform, according to 
> their website you can mail Exept .
> I'm not using STX for database access yet, but if necessary I would 
> probably try to use ODBC for SQLServer or PostgreSQL.
When I checked the ODBC implementation it didn't worked at all. And the 
comments said that only Oracle drivers were
in a somehow supported state as there were only customers using Oracle 
databases.
>
> I do not understand what you mean by 'overhaul its tools'? I think it 
> is pretty fast, compared to Squeak.
According to the ST/X source comments all tools will be rewritten with 
the GUI builder (I don't remember the exact name).
The old tools are hand coded. You can see some of the results in the 
configuration dialogs:
the use of some of the newer tools are not yet recommended.


Andreas



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