Re: [boost] Interest in Database Template Library?

From: Corwin Joy (cjoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-03 16:20:20

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Seidman" <gseidman_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in Database Template Library?

> Corwin Joy sez:
> } ----- Original Message -----
> } From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> } To: <boost_at_[hidden]>; <boost_at_[hidden]>
> } Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 8:23 AM
> } Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in Database Template Library?
> }
> } > At 10:06 PM 6/1/2001, Corwin Joy wrote:
> [...]
> } > * Is there a portable, freely available database backend?
> } >
> } Yes.  In addition to running versus Microsoft ODBC, we also run against
> } unixODBC under Linux ("The unixODBC Project goals are to develop and
promote
> } unixODBC to be the definitive standard for ODBC on non MS Windows
> } platforms." - see details at http://www.unixodbc.org/).  However, as far
as
> } I know, unixODBC currently only runs on Linux and FreeBSD.  For other
unix
> } platforms (Solarix, HP-UX, AIX, SGI) one would likely have to buy an
ODBC
> } driver from Merant :-(.
>
> I have used unixODBC on Solaris and Linux with PostgreSQL and DB2 with no
> problem. I see no reason why it wouldn't work on other Unix systems. I can
> try it on SGI and AIX if people are interested (with PostgreSQL, anyway...
> I don't have permission to install things like DB2 on the SGI and AIX
boxen
> around). In any case, unixODBC seems to be a solid ODBC implementation for
> any POSIX-like environment (including BeOS, I think). The only system I
> know of which may not have an ODBC implementation available is pre-OSX
Mac.
>
> [...]
> } Thanks,
> } Corwin
> --Greg
>
So I went ahead and asked the unixODBC folks what platforms one can run
unixODBC under and here was their response:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Gorham" <nick_at_[hidden]>
To: <unixodbc-dev_at_[hidden]>; <cjoy_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [unixODBC-DEV] - Portability question

> cjoy_at_[hidden] wrote:
>
> > Is there a list anywhere of what platforms unixODBC can run on?
> > I looked all over the website but all I could find was Linux and FreeBSD
> > listed explicitly.
> > However, I understand that folks have run on Solaris and other?
> > Help?
> >
> > Corwin
>
> Hi,
>
> Well we build it on
>
> Linux (Intel and Alpha)
> FreeBSD
> Tru64
> AIX
> HPUX
> Solaris (Intel and Sparc)
> Sco OpenServer
> UnixWare
> SINIX
>
> I know of others that build it on IRIX, and we have it running now on
> OpenVMS (though the name becomes a problem then :-). I am working as I
type
> on getting it to build on Darwin (Mac OS X).
>
> --
> Nick Gorham
> When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did, gently while sleeping,
> and not like his passangers, screaming in a panic, looking for the
> inflatable raft. -- Seen on ./
>
>
>