Steve O'Hara, dando pulos de alegria, escreveu :
Nuno,
You're not going to be making too many friends here with that
attitude........
To my knowledge, all the wrappers for SQLite are free and most authors will
also give you the source code too if you want it.
Well, I decided to make the OLE/DB provider exactly to help a friend. I
don't have any need for that.
There are many payed wrappers for sqlite (including COM ones). Just
visit the links in the wiki and you'll see that.
I don't want to displease anyone, and it is the first time I intend to
make some money from an "open source" project, but I also think we
should get rewarded from doing things we don't like to do (that is
called working as opposed to just programming for fun).
For most people, a simple OLEDB provider would do the trick - there are
plenty of examples of writing these in any MS language you like (VB, C etc)
Did you noticed there are very few open source OLE/DB providers? MySQL
only has one, and not maintained since 2001. It started as a commercial
project and only later (L)GPL'ed.
The reason for this, IMHO, is because it isn't easy programming and it
doesn't make sense for most of the major languages exactly for the
difficulty in making it work right. It's easy to just use the native
language wrappers for this, but that will not work in other languages
(or even different frameworks, like VCL/MFC).
If you think my "business plan" is not fair, I would be pleased to ear
any alternatives you might have to make it better.
Best regards,
~Nuno Lucas
