Does wine supports database applications
Enrico Weigelt
weigelt at metux.de
Sat Feb 21 07:38:47 CST 2004
* David Lee Lambert <lamber45 at cse.msu.edu> [2004-02-20 20:51:21 -0500]:
<snip>
> > BTW: is there any interest in adapting the win-odbc to unixODBC
> > within wine ?
>
> This seems like it would be a good idea forporting applications
> written against a MySQL or Postgres backend, or where Unix ODBC drivers
> are available.
IMHO most important RDBMS' are available through unixodbc, even the M$-toys.
<snip>
> It might be more useful to write a converter that looks like an ODBC driver
> to Windows aplications but passes requests along to a Perl DBI driver.
No, better write this one as an unixodbc-driver.
Always going over perl makes things slower and adds unneeded complexitiy.
Most cases will work w/ uodbc and these few which require perl modules
are acceptable to be slower.
cu
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