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[Kit Bishop]

Jeff wrote:
> On Oct 28, 9:26 am, va... at wxwidgets.org (Vadim Zeitlin) wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:02:55 +0100 Andreas Oppermann <Andreas-Opperm... at oss-gmbh.de> wrote:
>>
>> AO> Why is this part removed?
>>
>>  Because there was no maintainer and in particular nobody could update it
>> to work correctly in Unicode build (which will be the default, if not only,
>> in wx3).
>>
>> AO> The last version was working.
>>
>>  With a lot of bugs that nobody was willing to fix.
>>
>> AO> Does the dev team plan to have an alternative wrapper for odbc in wx?
>>
>>  No, there are other libraries which are better than wxODBC for this.
>> Database access doesn't need to be a part of cross-platform GUI toolkit.
>>
>> AO> Some weeks ago Vadim asked for further maintenance and someone was willing
>> AO> to do that.
>>
>>  No, nobody was.
>>
>>  Regards,
>> VZ
>>
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>
> Vadim,
>
> I was not aware that wxODBC was going to be depreciated.  I was going
> to be using it in a new project, but I am going to reconsider this
> decision now.  I am aware of several problems with data types not
> being support but I was going to fix them.
>
> What will be the final release of this library?
>
> You said that there are other libraries that are better than wxODBC,
> would you list the ones that you know about?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Downs
>
>   
While I haven't used it in a full application yet, after some playing
around I certainly think it is worth giving SOCI a go -
http://soci.sourceforge.net

Best regards,
Kit Bishop
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