Re: [gnome-db] An introduction of myself and a topic about C# Bindings for libGDA

[Danny deSousa <Danny_deSousa telus net>]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:36, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 04:31, Danny deSousa wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I want to introduce myself to the team here. My name is Danny deSousa
> > and I will hopefully be able to help this team achieve its objections
> > for the Mono project. I'm a volunteer just donating a whole bunch of
> > time to helping GnomeDB and Mono projects, simply because I like this
> > software development and open source stuff alot. I have 5 years of
> > experience developing data access, such as Odbc and some Ole Db, I have
> > alot of experience writing Sql processors and client/server software.
> > 
> welcome to the team!
Thanks
> 
> > Open Source is an enormous divergence in development models from the
> > norm and I like it....:-) So enough about me and onto some serious
> > stuff.
> > 
> > 
> > I have talked to Rodrigo about starting the effort on the ODBC.Net
> > provider and he has eagerly given me the green light to start, and so I
> > am assuming that I am the only one working on that. Correct me if that
> > is not the case. 
> >
> AFAIK, that's the case, so go on.
> 
> > I have spent the last 2 weeks learning LibGDA and the
> > other peripheral components that make up the GnomeDB package, I have
> > noticed that a C# binding to LibGDA would go a long way to making
> > implementation of the ODBC.Net Provider, as well as other providers,
> > alot easier. A search of the mailing list archives identified that such
> > a discussion did occur, however, those discussions occured in May of
> > 2002. So you might be able to guess what my next question could be. Is
> > that effort still ongoing or has it been dropped for some reason? If it
> > is ongoing then too whom do I speak to and how can I help?
> > 
> you mean doing the C# bindings or doing the ODBC.Net based on those
> bindings? If you mean the C# bindings, they are already available, in
> the GTK# project, along with libgnomedb bindings also.
I mean the ODBC.Net provider based on those bindings. So the layering
would look something like this:

System.Data.Odbc->C# Bindings->LibGDA->Odbc

> 
> About doing the ODBC.Net provider based on GDA#, well, it might be a
> good idea, although I think it would be much easier to just have
> System.Data.Odbc be a wrapper around System.Data.OleDb, which already
> does use libgda (although directly, not via the C# bindings).
Interesting prospect. This makes having a direct C# binding to GDA
irrelevant, since it does already exist in System.Data.OleDb, and since
both ODBC and OLE DB are based on the relational model changes to one or
the other will have minimal impact. This will certainly make
implementing the ODBC.Net provider an order of magnitude easier. I think
that I will pursue this, thanks.

> 
> is that what you meant?
Yes this is exactly what I mean.
> 
> cheers
> 

Thanks for the push in the right direction.

- Danny