On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> > > On 29 Mar 2015, at 04:47, Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:21:01PM -0700, nacho wrote: > >> I'm using MySQL to hold some data on commodities prices for futures > >> valuation and want to - of course - use Smalltalk as a front-end. Which > >> framework would you recommend? > > > > There is a pure Smalltalk MySQL driver on Squeaksource. Not sure whether > > it has been moved to SS3 or STH. > > > > http://www.squeaksource.com/StdbMysqlProtocol > > > > Others have suggested Glorp. Glancing at the code, seems Glorp currently > only > > works with VisualWorks' MySQL driver. Based on my experience integrating > > NBSQLite3 into Glorp, I'd say it will take about a day or two, depending > on the > > design of the driver. I've tested abovementioned MySQL driver with some > version > > of MySQL5 some months ago. > > It would be very good to have another Glorp solution with a pure Smalltalk > implemented DB driver, like the PostgresV2 one. IMHO this is way less error > prone than the whole library/driver/.. mess on all these different platform. > > Since our Glorp refactor back years ago...adding a Glorp adaptor (DatabaseDriver subclasses) should be very very easy. So yes, it would be nice to do it for the MySQL driver...but I thought we already had that... -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
