On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:

> Guillermo wrote:
>> The last time I tried to load DBXTalk in 2.0 the image hang up when loading
>> FFI :(. So probably we should think on switching to NB FFI, but it will
>> take some time...
>
> Mhhh ... when I load ConfigurationOfFFI configuration browser
> and then manually load "FFI-Tests-tbn.6" from
> http://source.squeakfoundation.org/FFI all tests are green on Windows.
>
> And yes - migrating to NB makes sense!
>
>> BTW, since Igor has worked on the bundling of native libraries, we can
>> probably do that with the dbxtalk native libs also :)
>
> OK - looks like the infrastructure is ready. What is required to do that?
> Will you send the libraries to Igor and he just bundles them?
> That would be cool and save many people a lot of time.

But accessing sql libs is not core so I would like to avoid to have a vm with all the
librairies people used. You do not ***Imagine*** the amount of energy and time
igor spent on making cairo backend be working on the three platforms.

>> All dbxtalk should be working in 1.4 so far. I also try to update it with
>> the contributions of people but sometimes my hands are full :).
>
> thanks for that. It is a very important project and I would like to
> see it easily installable and working in Pharo 2.0 too.
>
> Sven wrote:
>> I use it in 2.0 to access Postgresql databases using Glorp + the native (socket based) PostgresV2 driver.
>> This works fine.
>
> So we should put the config into the working configs for 2.0?
>
> Thx
> T.
>