[plt-scheme] Announce: SQLI/SQLD PLaneT package

Yes I've thought about that. But this would result in 6 PLanET packages:

SQLI, SQLD-SQLite, SQLD-Psql, SQLD-MySQL, SQLD-Oracle and SQLD-DB2.

Wouldn't this be a problem?

--Hans


Noel Welsh schreef:

>I don't have a full understanding of the problem, but could
>the SQLI library not be split into driver and interface
>libraries?  This would mean the package only tries to
>compile for the drivers the user actually has.
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>N.
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>--- Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
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>>At Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:06:38 +0100, Hans Oesterholt
>>wrote:
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>>>Hans Oesterholt wrote:
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>>>>I think I know what I'm seeing. But I'm not at my
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>>system right now.
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>>>>It's at the compile zos phase and trying to require
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>>c-sqld-db2.scm (which
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>>>>points to c-sqld-db2.dll). As I didn't provide the
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>>DB2CLI.DLL for DB2,
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>>>>It will not compile.  I'm not sure what to do.  I
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>>could supply the needed
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>>>>DLL, but it's a vendor library. Or I could implement
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>>a dependency in
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>>>>the pre-installer for windows. Well, I'm not sure.
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>>>>Anyone, what would you do?
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>>I'd make the library dependency dynamic somehow, either
>>by having
>>Scheme code use `dynamic-require', or by delayloading
>>"DB2CLI.DLL". The
>>latter seems promising in this case if you're building
>>the DLL with
>>MSVC.
>>
>>Matthew
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