[plt-scheme] oracle driver for PLT?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org>wrote:

> On Sep 22, 2009, at 17:09, YC wrote:
>
>  The key to develop a driver is that you need to either know the
>> communication protocol + network development or the C driver + FFI.
>>  Network-based (native scheme) has the advantage that it is pure scheme and
>> it works with PLT's threads (FFI calls synchronize threads)
>>
>
> I encourage the pure Scheme approach.  I recently made the switch to
> (planet jaz/mysql:1:4) because "it just works."  For several years I've used
> C & FFI to talk to MySQL (David Van Horn's perfectly good package) , but I
> recently got burned when I got a new Mac, reinstalled MySQL, found out it
> had a 64-bit library, while my C/FFI interface was 32-bit.  The problem was,
> I needed to be up again quickly, so I converted my client code to use the
> fairly new and very usable jaz/mysql PLaneT package.  I can talk to my
> database again.  I'll look again at the 64- and 32-bit issues when I'm less
> pressed for time.
>

That's an interesting angle that I have not encountered yet since I don't do
FFI much.  I agree with you that if it's a network database, pure scheme
approach should be considered first.

Cheers,
yc
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