Re: Lispworks and Oracle

I'm not aware of anyone doing anything with the Oracle backend at the
moment in terms of uffi.  I'd be happy to try out what you have since
there is an Oracle or two around here somewhere.

Cheers,
Jesse

Martin Thornquist <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on getting UncommonSQL to run on LispWorks against Oracle.
> I use frequently updated CVS sources.
> 
> So far it seems that the USQL commons (that is, the sql/*.lisp files)
> are more or less ported (I found a few CMUCL specific things, but
> those were easily fixed), while the Oracle backend is full of
> unconditionalized CMUCL FFI with no traces of porting.
> 
> Firstly, I wonder if anyone has worked, or are working, on this -- in
> which case I obviously would like to hear about experiences and
> cooperate if possible.
> 
> I have never worked with FFI before, so I've used a couple of days to
> get to know the sources and the CMU and LW FFIs. Currently I'm looking
> at porting the Oracle backend to the UFFI library, to get portable FFI
> once and for all. I'd love to hear commentaries on this plan.
> 
> I can provide my patches to the USQL commons if anyone wants to test
> them -- I have not yet tested them (except from compiling and
> loading), as I have to get the Oracle backend up and running first.
> 
> 
> Martin
> -- 
> "An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
>                                                  -Paul Graham, On Lisp
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