[Info-vax] SQLite port for OpenVMS (Re: Is there currently a functioning link for hobbyist licenses?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-12 13:06:01 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:

> So, I take it what people are saying is that there really is no 
> practical use for or real interest in SQLite on VMS.  That being the 
> case, I can scratch that of my todo list.

Among those that have Oracle licenses, interest in anything other than 
Oracle will probably be pretty low.  Among others, interest is unclear, 
and largely up to individual sites and to VSI, if VSI decides to 
integrate and to start to make use of a database.

A precompiler would be nice, but it's going to be a fair amount of 
parsing work to get it to the level of the Rdb precompiler parser, and 
to get it integrated into the language more completely than what Rdb 
does (or did — the precompiler may well have been updated since my last 
use), that's probably going to involve a integrating a language-parsing 
library such as LLVM, and that's not going to be an option with VMS for 
a few years.

More than the precompilers, it's the ad hoc query tools that I miss — 
InstantSQL is about the only option on OpenVMS, and that disappeared an 
aeon or two ago AFAIK.  Those tools could well generate the necessary 
language-specific code, too.   But that's only if you're itching to do 
some SQL work somewhat above the level of a language processor / 
precompiler.  On OS X, the equivalent available tools include Sequel 
Pro <http://www.sequelpro.com> and PSequel <http://www.psequel.com>



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