Squeak Database Connectivity

Ranjan Bagchi ranjan.bagchi at pobox.com
Wed Feb 18 18:49:35 UTC 1998


I'm not sure at all -- just getting into databases, but wouldn't something 
like an ODBC interface be extremely useful for this?

    -rj

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris G. Chr. Shingarov <boris at dialogue.msu.su>
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak Database Connectivity


>Billy,
>
>> In particular I would like to interface with SQL.
>
>I do plan to add an interface to RDBs from Squeak but
>this is not going to be soon.  If someone (THIS MEANS
>*YOU*) volunteers to help with this then it will come
>much sooner ;-)))
>
>I have a (more or less stably working) interface to
>native platform APIs.  The idea it uses is similar
>to PlatformFunction in IBM ST.  Currently it's for
>OS/2.  I'm looking into porting Squeak (and this
>interface) to mainframe OSs.  Then on top of this I'm
>going to build a native API-based interface to DB2 on
>both OS/2 and OS/390 and VM.
>
>Boris
>





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