2008/5/10 Rob Rothwell <
r.j.rothwell@...>:
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew what work would be required to provide a
> threaded ODBC connection in Squeak similar to what is available for
> VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X. The ability to not freeze the VM while running
> a query would be very useful for me, but I don't even know where to start.
>
> Or, is it a bigger issue than just ODBC, something buried deep within the VM
> and/or the FFI?
>
Someone could make a plugin, which will call ODBC from separate native
thread, without blocking VM thread and blocking only caller Process.
It can be even me :)
Also see an GSoC OpenDBX project, not taken by anyone, but i seen
someone recently started to code initial bindings to it.
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6036Who is it? Please raise the hand! :)
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
