Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > > > 3. A standard metadata API. Each RDBMS does this differently and it would > be > > nice if developers of, e.g., ORM tools and such did not have to "roll > their > > own" metadata query

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > 3. A standard metadata API. Each RDBMS does this differently and it would be > nice if developers of, e.g., ORM tools and such did not have to "roll their > own" metadata query and manipulation logic. Not sure if that really belong to an API thou

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Robert Calco < bob.ca...@softcraft-solutions.com> wrote: > Petite: > > >> For what's worth, I like what Neil Richardson did with luadbi: >> >> A database interface library for Lua >> >> http://code.google.com/p/luadbi/ >> >> > Yeah the VC++ projects for Windows are

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
Petite: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > > > for me, an 'ideal' relational DB system would look like this: > > For what's worth, I like what Neil Richardson did with luadbi: > > A database interface library for L

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
Petite: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > > > Thoughts/suggestions welcome! > > Not very glamourous, but... > > (1) Have the current drivers work properly :)) > Hmm. I'll have to give that one some thought. I guess it belo

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Tomas Guisasola Gorham wrote: > >>> (1) Have the current drivers work properly :)) >> Could you send examples? > > Well, right at this moment, this is just related to the SQLite driver which > seems not to ret

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Tomas Guisasola Gorham wrote: >> (1) Have the current drivers work properly :)) > Could you send examples? Well, right at this moment, this is just related to the SQLite driver which seems not to return the result of pragma calls in recent version of SQLite. Se

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Tomas Guisasola Gorham
Hi for me, an 'ideal' relational DB system would look like this: - a collection of 'drivers' with a common API, but _absolutely_ no SQL tinkering. the user should be guaranteed that any SQL he writes will arrive byte-identical to the SQL engine. this layer is mostly done with LuaSQL.

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Tomas Guisasola Gorham
Hi (1) Have the current drivers work properly :)) Could you send examples? Regards, Tomás___ Kepler-Project mailing list Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepl

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > for me, an 'ideal' relational DB system would look like this: For what's worth, I like what Neil Richardson did with luadbi: A database interface library for Lua http://code.google.com/p/luadbi/

Re: [Kepler-Project] LuaSQL

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Andre Carregal wrote: > As his posts have already hinted, I'd like to announce that Robert > Calco is now one of the LuaSQL project admins. Congrats! > Thanks for the offer and energy Robert! :o) Now... regarding that SQLite driver and pragma queries issue... who do

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > Thoughts/suggestions welcome! Not very glamourous, but... (1) Have the current drivers work properly :)) ___ Kepler-Project mailing list Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net http://lists.luaforge.net/c

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, steve donovan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Scott Morgan > wrote: > > I think this is what LuaRocks is for, and most the drivers have > > rockspecs. > > Anything non-trivial will use a makefile, and so a rock is only as > good as its makefile. There's an

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread steve donovan
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Scott Morgan wrote: > I think this is what LuaRocks is for, and most the drivers have > rockspecs. Anything non-trivial will use a makefile, and so a rock is only as good as its makefile. There's an art to making portable makefiles. > You'll never get an easy sing

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Morgan
On 10/05/2010 03:03 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > > > 4. Support additional drivers, e.g., interbase/firebird > > Check the repository, there is a FB driver that should (in theory) > also > handle older Interbase stuff too. > > > I didn't see it in the latest download from luaforge...

Re: [Kepler-Project] LuaSQL

2010-10-05 Thread Andre Carregal
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Robert Calco wrote: > I'm interested in the whole project, though I would never turn down any > expert-level assistance on any of the supported SQL drivers or dialects. My > goal would be to make sure the drivers remain as consistent as possible and > that the commo

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Robert Calco wrote: >> it's possible that this layer >> would require LPEG to get a robust compiler.  maybe it could also >> present a different API without the compiler, to express > > Didn't quit follow the last part of this point... could you restate? i was thin

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
Javier: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Robert Calco > wrote: > > Again, this would be optional to keep the core light/simple. :) > > +1 > > for me, an 'ideal' relational DB system would look like this: > > - a collection of 'driver

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Robert Calco wrote: > Again, this would be optional to keep the core light/simple. :) +1 for me, an 'ideal' relational DB system would look like this: - a collection of 'drivers' with a common API, but _absolutely_ no SQL tinkering. the user should be guaranteed

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
Scott: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Scott Morgan wrote: > On 10/05/2010 02:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > > The following are some pseudo-random thoughts about putting some spry > > in LuaSQL's steps: > > > > 1. Better make/install procedure. By better I mean detection of > > available driver

Re: [Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Morgan
On 10/05/2010 02:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > The following are some pseudo-random thoughts about putting some spry > in LuaSQL's steps: > > 1. Better make/install procedure. By better I mean detection of > available driver libraries should be automatic or at least > semiautomatic and all the desi

[Kepler-Project] [LuaSQL] Roadmap Ideas

2010-10-05 Thread Robert Calco
The following are some pseudo-random thoughts about putting some spry in LuaSQL's steps: 1. Better make/install procedure. By better I mean detection of available driver libraries should be automatic or at least semiautomatic and all the desired/available drivers should be compiled and installed w