Guiseppe, I'm going to add my ODBC extension, which is already available as dll. It's Windows only for now, but with the sources available, incorporation of Linux and Mac ports shouldn't be a problem.
TomBon
There are several DB layer aggregators like OpenDBX, libDBI or even APR (as a function part). Problem here is most of them are looking outdated.
BrianH
Afaict some of the ODBC APIs for Unix/Linux are kept up to date. Supporting those too would be a good idea. ODBC isn't Windows-specific.
TomBon
Some NOSQL connectors would be fine too, not all supporting a straight REST interface. MongoDB, Redis and Tokyo/Kyoto offers a very clean C api.
Kaj, thx for the info. now I am on the serverside (nix) to compare the handling and performance with the current Lua stack I am using. Would be great if we could work on some extensions later, on the base we did before if you like ;-)
Kaj
I'm open to it. R3 extensions in Red/System on Unix requires the dyn-lib-emitter branch to be finished and extended to other platforms
Kaj
Alternatively, a Red(/System) host could be written that loads the R3 library, but that's not so simple, because there's no real separation in the R3 host code between the platform-specific and cross-platform parts of the host. That means you're almost forced to write the host in C, pulling in the existing C code
AdrianS
should Red/System not be advertised/pomoted a bit more as a better way to write rebol extensions, now that Rebol is OS? I mean, it should be listed on the Rebol GitHub project as the best way, if indeed it is. Possible on rebol.com, if Carl would allow it.
possible = possibly
Kaj
I think so, but only after the dyn-lib-emitter branch is finished
AdrianS
any ETA on that?
Kaj
Ask Doc :-)
DocKimbel
I should get back to it around early January.
Pekr
Well, I am not good at those things, but having R3 extensions written in R/S seems a good oportunity to those, who are not much fluent in C, and always wished for more flexible R2 DLL interface, no? :-)
Robert
we have: - COM Interface - BEEP - SQLite - Licensing support functions
TomBon
Great, will setup a page the next days, to list the current extensions with description/download link to get a better overview. Just running the first embedded POSIX prototype here with a bunch of usefull functions like pid handling, fork, nanosleep, popen, execve, sig, pipe etc.
Bo
Pekr, Yes!!
TomBon
Robert, do you have a download link for your extensions mentioned above?