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From: mauro:fontana:speedautomazione:it at: 26-Mar-2004 14:59
>> You see, Rebol has nothing
>> natively that can provide access to any DB or XML, so it seems to be
>> quite
>> a self contained/isolated world.
>>
>>
>> People have somewhat resolved this problems, but I see that using
>> complex
>
>> 3rd part scripts to access a DB is somewhat a drawback with respect
>> having
>> it natively integrated/supported.
>> The same goes for XML parsing and building features.
>>
>>
>>
> but now I have to object. What is si complex about mySQL protocol? 10KB?
> Yes, it is third party, but excuse me - when in python or perl - aren't
> their even more general functions in separate modules you have to
> include/load/call/whatever? I do'nt see anything complex about "do
> %my-sql.r" at all ;-)
Yeah, it's a subtle thing, but I would like to see native optimized
functions to access DB and do XML parsing/building. 3rd party libraries,
how good they can be written, keep getting interpreted which is a
disavantage IMHO.
> /Command version contains direct mySQL access, but maybe DocKimble could
> compress his mysql.r into binary format, so you would not see its
> internals and only API would be left for you, which is plain simple -
> open, insert, copy, close :-)
See above. That's whay I would also like to see soon a mod for Apache
instead of having to constantly call Rebol interpreter for doing CGI.
> OK, I think I know what you consider being a trouble - such third party
> tools don't use unified way to certain areas which we try to address.
> That is why I asked for thing as Uniserve - multi-protocol plug-in
> architecture, so that ppl would not have to start over and over again
> building their protocols from scratch. I think Maarten tried to address
> that by some rebol library - the best scripts put into some toolset,
> which could be used by many .... other thing may be Maxim's Slim -
> module system - Robert asked us to try that on AltME world, and I will -
> maybe it can solve some dependency problems etc.
>
> The problem with Rebol community is, that each of us uses some slightly
> different aproach, and that we can't somehow agree upon some "standard",
> where others would use it and build upon it ...
>
>>>
>>
>> No, I was speaking about the free Core version, which is the tools I
>> have
>> been using since the beginning. I have not real use of View or Windows
>> only dll access features.
>>
>>
> Windows only? I may not understand ... under Linux you get access to .so
> libraries of course. But maybe you mean lack of real virtual machine in
> rebol for real cross platform code?
Yes, that's what I meant. Using external calls as they are now makes the
main advantage of rebol (portability) useless. I like to use whatever is
provided integrated in the interpreter which I think as optimized in
speed/memory usage and is always available.
M&F