Forum OpenACS Development: Re: nsoracle driver changing

3: Re: nsoracle driver changing (response to 1)

Posted by Jeremy Collins on 02/10/04 04:56 AM

If the OpenACS community is supporting this driver it doesn't show. Is there a version in CVS outside of AOLserver's sourceforge CVS?

And I only asked about API changes because I want to know what people would think. I'm also not talking gratuitous changes. So anyway its good to know what effect it might have. Obviously I'll avoid it but there are some things I'd like to see changed. Nothing that has to happen though.

Anyway, my initial changes do not break compatibility but instead add some very cool stuff. I've committed the first cut of the 2.8 driver to CVS. It should be available via anonymous cvs soon.

HINT: Read doc/plsql.txt then copy the plsql.tcl file somewhere it'll get sourced and give it a whirl. I think you'll be impressed. I hope anyway.

Enjoy it. Its awesome. It doesn't break backward compatibility. =)

4: Re: nsoracle driver changing (response to 3)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 02/10/04 10:18 AM

Jeremy, those files do not seem to be in the doc directory.

As for supporting the driver, I think I have made the majority of the substantive changes in the last couple years (and tracked down and applied any patches I could find) but I don't really actively work on it.

I think the driver could be substantially cleaned up internally, and if I would look for anything it would be to implement some of the higher level tcl api we use in openacs natively in the driver but it's not something I am likely to do anything about.