Kamil Kukura <kamk at volny.cz> wrote:
> When trying to attract web developers from environments such as PHP, ASP 
> or JSP, I'm badly missing a thing to show as how Squeak deals with 
> external databases. Perhaps best way to connect to any DB is to use ODBC 
> which scares me as it relies on FFI 
> <http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2424>

FFI seems the proper way to talk to ODBC, and ODBC seems like a direct
way to get portable database access.

Is fear the only reason not to use FFI, or is there a technical problem
as well? Have you tried it?  Maybe we just need to smooth the process of
getting everything set up?


-Lex