Re: Inline::C to write a DBD ?

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: Coupla points: 1. After (painful) experimentation with Inline::Struct, I've determined it's got some significant short comings at this time heavy sigh 2. Howver, for my purposes, with Inline::C and some clever editting (thank

Re: Inline::C to write a DBD ?

2003-10-21 Thread Dean Arnold
I'm dealing with a *very primitive* API. It operates at a level only *slightly* above socket calls. (Which is why I wrote a Pure Perl version of the driver in the first place). Eg, in order to support simple things like placeholders, a signifcant parse of the SQL is required (the DBMS supports 2

Re: Inline::C to write a DBD ?

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: All that being said, I seem to have inflamed a sore nerve. Not at all. It wasn't clear what the underlying api was like. From what you describe it _would_ make sense to first implement a separate module providing a thin Perl

Re: Inline::C to write a DBD ?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff Zucker
Tim Bunce wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: From what you describe it _would_ make sense to first implement a separate module providing a thin Perl interface to the API, and then implement a pure-perl driver that uses that. Dean, I'm working on the thinist

Re: Inline::C to write a DBD ?

2003-10-21 Thread Dean Arnold
Tim Bunce wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: From what you describe it _would_ make sense to first implement a separate module providing a thin Perl interface to the API, and then implement a pure-perl driver that uses that. Dean, I'm working on