On 1/28/08, Carl Gundel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand it, Apple's Mac OS X comes with SQLite as part of its Mail > app.
It is not so much that "OS X comes with SQLite" as part of its Mail.app. It is more like OS X allows one to create persistent data stores using multiple technologies... one of them is SQLite compatible SQL tables. It does come with SQLite, the shell program residing under /usr/bin, which on my Leopard system is version 3.4.0. Its supporting libraries are likewise in system-specific locations. > Is there some way to leverage this to avoid distributing SQLite with > Mac apps? Has anyone tried this, or is it a bad idea? > > I'm assuming that I can have my own copy of SQLite packaged with my OS X > application and it will not conflict with the version that Apple ships? > You can have gazillion copies of SQLite on your computer, and as long as you install the libraries in different locations, and remember to call them from those different locations, they wouldn't affect each other. Most folks though install their own version of SQLite under the /usr/local tree thereby not only being able to customize their SQLite experience but also to ensure that they don't clobber any system related thing accidentally. Puneet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
