[Oledb-dev] Provider question

[Arvo]

Hello Shachar,

Offtopic part first :)

>>You're always talking about code quality, btw :)
>>
> Is that something that intimidates? This is not an idle question - I
> want to know whether you feel I have been holding back the community
> development, and whether there is anything I could do better.

Well, this is not so easy to answer.

First, IMHO we just cannot talk about community development - because there's no pgoledb development community at the moment (for some last years, I think - sorry if that sounds a bit exaggregated). Konstantin may break this sad trend, at least I hope so.

Second, you have made clear that no serious development by your side will not happen (at least in foreseeable future). I can understand - when there's no incentive (whatever kind it would be) and no spare time and especially no direct need, nobody wont start developing missing features.

I may agree about quality code, but for me for example this (and two causes above) makes impossible to join actively. Well, I'm trying to ignore that [code quality requirements] somehow:)

And yes, I do not have incentive either - fully functional pgoledb driver (including full Crystal Reports and uniqueidentifier type fields support) could be usable for our commercial software, but we (our company) do not start developing PostgreSQL interface just in hope that some customer will buy it (unfortunately there's almost no interest in using PostgreSQL server).


Back to driver questions.

> Thanks. Let me know. If possible, I want the code to compile, out of the
> box, on as many platforms as possible.

From what I remember, I recommend to include VS.NET style solution and project files too - I had some weird problems with autoconverted project file.

I'll send them tomorrow (if needed), I have to make these usable and check, what was the initial problem.

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