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[open-cobol-list] Re: open-cobol-0.9.6
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David Essex |
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[open-cobol-list] Re: open-cobol-0.9.6 |
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Thu Jun 13 14:18:02 2002 |
At 01:47 PM 13/06/02 +0900, Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:40:17 -0400, David Essex wrote:
> ...
>> In my view the above are relatively independent projects which could easily
>> be shared between projects.
> ...
> Right. Should we start a new project, like cobol-utils, which
> shares common utilities, libraries, and test suites?
Sounds OK to me.
Perhaps one could think of this as a group of projects under the same banner.
If no one objects, I think the first utility should be the NIST test suite.
And the second should be some kind of Indexed/Relative file utility and
library.
>> As for the embedded SQL pre-processor for COBOL, this is also a separate
>> project, a rather large project.
>>
>> The problem here is that each database has a different internal API. So to
>> create a generic SQL pre-processor in my view is not realistic.
>>
>> Yes, one could use ODBC, but there some performance issues there.
>
> I do not think performance is a big issue at this moment.
> Having a generic interface that works is better than nothing.
> We can improve the interface when performance really become
> an issue.
>
> Many databases seem to support ODBC on Linux already. What
> about having a preprocessor and a run-time library that
> support ODBC?
There are at least 2 ODBC projects distributed under the GPL. So part of
the work is done.
But that still leaves the SQL parser/scanner, no small project.
Perhaps it would be easier to adapt an existing open source C SQL
preprocessor to COBOL.
The only one I know of is PostgreSQL, but it is distributed under the
Berkeley license.
David Essex
- [open-cobol-list] Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] open-cobol-0.9.6, David Essex, 2002/06/12
- [open-cobol-list] Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] open-cobol-0.9.6, Keisuke Nishida, 2002/06/13
- [open-cobol-list] Re: open-cobol-0.9.6,
David Essex <=
- [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: open-cobol-0.9.6, Tim Josling, 2002/06/14
- [open-cobol-list] COBOL utilities project (was: open-cobol-0.9.6), David Essex, 2002/06/14
- [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] COBOL utilities project (was: open-cobol-0.9.6), Tim Josling, 2002/06/14
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] COBOL utilities project (was: open-cobol-0.9.6), David A. Cobb, 2002/06/14
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] COBOL utilities project(was: open-cobol-0.9.6), Tim Josling, 2002/06/14
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] COBOL utilities project(was: open-cobol-0.9.6), David A. Cobb, 2002/06/16
- [open-cobol-list] Re: COBOL utilities project, David Essex, 2002/06/14
- [open-cobol-list] RE: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: COBOL utilities project, vze3y7w8, 2002/06/14
- [open-cobol-list] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: COBOL utilities project, Keisuke Nishida, 2002/06/15
- [open-cobol-list] RE: COBOL utilities project, David Essex, 2002/06/15