[DB-SIG] Oracle DB driver

Jim Fulton jim@digicool.com
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:52:21 -0500


"Németh Miklós" wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Yes, or a NMOracle8 or Whatever. :)

Jim


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