[Mono-list] Review of mono's ADO.NET

Reggie Burnett rykr@bellsouth.net
Tue, 27 May 2003 12:34:28 -0500


Thank you Jeff for those kind words.  I will strive to maintain that =
level
of service in the future.

Reggie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
> admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Perrin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Review of mono's ADO.NET
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> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 10:40, Marco Canini wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:03, Reggie Burnett wrote:
> > > Marco
> > >
> > > Though I haven't had a lot of time lately to update it, I have =
been
> the
> > > general maintainer of the MySQL provider named ByteFX.Data.  It is
> pure C#
> > > and has been accepted has the replacement for the original
> Mono.Data.MySql
> > > provider (which used libmysql.so)
> >
> > What're the motivations that conduced you to implement a provider in
> > pure C#?
> >
> > Isn't it more difficult to mantain than the wrapper over
> > libmysqlclient.so?
> >
> > Is ByteFX still believing in this project?
> >
> > Is the right man power allocated for this project?
> >
> > What kind of maturity has MySQLNEt reached?
> <snip>
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> Although I'm not Reggie, and can't answer some of your questions, what =
I
> *can* tell you is that I've been using the ByteFX MySQL provider for
> several months now with very few problems.  It is by far the best way =
to
> access a MySQL database in .NET, although I haven't tried some of the
> commercial solutions yet (which aren't free).  It seems that every bug
> I've run into so far gets fixed before I can even report it ;)
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> JP
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> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
> > > > admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Marco Canini
> > > > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 3:50 PM
> > > > To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> > > > Subject: [Mono-list] Review of mono's ADO.NET
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I'm a student at computer engineering at university of genoa
> (italy); me
> > > > and other 2 students are starting a review of the work that has =
been
> > > > done on the implementation of ADO.NET.
> > > > In particular we are interested in the support that mono's =
ADO.NET
> has
> > > > for the MySQL and PostreSQL databases.
> > > > I've already read the info on mono's site about the data =
providers
> for
> > > > those dbs, I want to ask if Rodrigo Moya and Daniel Morgan are =
the
> right
> > > > people for us, aren't them?
> > > > Our job is the base for a project of porting some applications =
from
> MS
> > > > .NET + SQL Server to the linux OS and MySQL or pgsql.
> > > > If you have some suggestions or ideas for us I'll be happy to
> discuss
> > > > with you.
> > > > I'll stay subscribed to this list at least to the completion of =
my
> job.
> > > > Thanks in advice.
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> --
> Jeff Perrin <testosteles@shaw.ca>
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