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  • From: Dossy <dossy AT panoptic.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Has FreeTDS been SWIG'd?
  • Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:29:45 -0500

On 2003.12.23, Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel AT talbott.ws> wrote:
> I'm considering making FreeTDS directly accessible from the Ruby
> language (http://www.ruby-lang.org/), removing the requirement of using
> ODBC. I think the best option for this will be to use SWIG
> (http://www.swig.org/), and was wondering if SWIG has ever been used to
> wrap FreeTDS (for any language). I would love to be able to stand on
> someone else's shoulders.

Database drivers don't really SWIG well, IMHO. You probably want to
implement just enough C code to create a freetds ruby/dbi driver.

-- Dossy
(who has written two database drivers for AOLserver, freetds being one
of them)

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Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
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