Comment in Jobs forum about Oracle dropping their C libs?

Post #25,586 by wharris2 1/24/02 5:09:15 PM Reply	Comment in Jobs forum about Oracle dropping their C libs? Todd made [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=25470\|this comment] in the Jobs forum about Oracle dropping C libraries: This is an oracle db? Did you know Oracle keeps saying they are dropping support for C libs and only want to support JDBC client libs going forward? Would this screw you up? To drop this thread into a more proper place, does anyone have any links, press releases, information that would verify it? "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #25,593 by CRConrad 1/24/02 5:24:08 PM Reply	I'll see what I can find out at work tomorrow. (Or possibly next week.) Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #25,685 by CRConrad 1/25/02 9:13:45 AM Reply	Naah - at least, not according to the guy I talked to. One of the guys on the developer side of things said he hadn't heard anything about it. And that, he said, was "no secret, so it's OK for you to tell your friends that". Could be, of course, that it is true -- and so secret that he doesn't know about it... But then again, he said he couldn't imagine why we'd want to do that. And neither can I: There's just too many apps out there that use them. Aren't most 3GL Oracle DB "driver" libraries written on top of this API? At least AFAIK, that is how the various Delphi "Direct Oracle Access" components are written, for instance: Translated from the C header (`.h`) files that specify the OCI, the Oracle Call Interface. Christian R. Conrad* The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #25,896 by broomberg 1/26/02 7:04:06 PM Reply	Won't happen All language bindings C, Perl, Python, etc go though these. They'd be telling their entire developer base to go pound sand. Unless they then created another library that translated between their Java and the outside world, but that would add another layer of indirection to every call, slowing it down. How much?

Welcome to IWETHEY!