[DB-SIG] Oracle DB driver

Németh Miklós nemeth@iqsoft.hu
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:32:55 +0100


Jim Fulton wrote:

> "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> >
> (snip)
> > > ...
> > > So I decided to write a third Oracle driver compatible with Python
> > > DB-API 2.0 and supporting all reasonable services available via OCI. I
> > > am an experienced OCI programmer, but quite new in writing Python
> > > extensions. I'd like to have your support and help in cases where I have
> > > problems.
> >
> > Why not take the DCOracle code and continue from there ?
>
> I was going to suggest the same thing when I realized that if
> *we* were going to do major work on DCOracle, we'd probably start
> from scratch because we'd like to see a pure Oracle 8 OCI module.
> (OCI 8 dosn't look at all like OCI 7 and DCOracle,
> for various resons, uses OCI 7 with a smattering of
> OCI 8 to support blobs.)

Does This mean you'd like to have a DCOracle7 and a DCOracle8 ?

NM