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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: Re: Sybase::DBLib EOL? and dbschema.pl
Date: Aug 25 2001 4:07PM
David Owen writes:
> >>>>> "Ashu" == Joglekar, Ashu [IT] writes:
>
> Ashu> (1) My DBA's have been telling me that Sybase will
> Ashu> end-of-life DBLib with version 12.0 of Open Client. Given
> Ashu> that there is a huge codebase out there that uses the
> Ashu> Sybase::DBlib module, has anyone tried to write a backwards
> Ashu> compatible wrapper that looks like Sybase::DBlib but calls
> Ashu> Sybase::CTlib behind the scenes? Also, what sort of
>
> I cannot believe that Sybase will EOL DBlib for just the reason that you
> give, such a large install base, but who knows; sillier things have been
> known.
>
> Anyway, I thought that Sybase already did the wrapper lib ie DBlib is
> already implemented as a series of CTlib calls, therefore no reason to EOL
> DBlib. I was trying to work out how to prove such a thing, but short of
> trying to interrupt a DBlib call before completion and seeing the stack
> trace, I cannot think of anything. Maybe Michael can. Anyway, I certainly
> agree that DBlib is never going to be developed, but provided the API does
> not change, then the DBlib wrapper will always be available.
I did an nm of the 12.5 libsybdb.a, and it doesn't look like it's a
wrapper around ClientLibrary. There are some calls to some comn_xxx
calls, and some intl_xxx calls, but other than that it seems that the
calls are native.
Michael
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