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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-03-12 16:23:
> On 2015-03-12 13:06:01 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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,...

That is, apart from Rdb Interactive SQL, right?
Or are you talkning about besides of Rdb?



> 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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