Hi Pierce,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 03:38, Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 07:34:35AM +0000, Alistair Grant wrote:
> > I'm not doing any database work at the moment (storing results in STON
> > files for now), but will also add the links to the class comments.
>
> Hi Alistair,
>
> I wasn't suggesting storing data in a database per se.
>
> I thought that, given that the desired functionality is not available in
> Pharo, the options are to implement it in pure Smalltalk or wrap an
> existing library. In the latter case, typically one wraps a C library
> using FFI.  With SQLite, its extensions are C libraries that are already
> wrapped for SQL. Writing SQL queries may get you a long way where you're
> going.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, I hadn't thought of that.  I'll
probably still develop a standalone library as it will be useful for
the community, but this may help.

Thanks again,
Alistair

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