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

[Marco Canini]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:33, Reggie Burnett 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?
> 
> It is more difficult to maintain than libmysqlclient.so.  Initially I did it
> because I wanted to but you should read all the email I get saying they are
> glad I developed a "native" provider instead of wrapping an existing one.

Well, I'm glad too for this native provider.
But what I wanna know is: is it really faster than the wrapper?
And if yes, does the gap between them justifie the effort of mantaining
a native provider?
That said i wanna you to know that i really appreciate what you are
doing, i'm just asking you these questions because i need to write a
well done review.

>  
> > 
> > Is ByteFX still believing in this project?
> 
> Oh yes.  My schedule is starting to clear and I plan on releasing a 1.0 very
> soon.
> 
> > 
> > Is the right man power allocated for this project?
> 
> Is all we have enough?  :-)
> 
> > 
> > What kind of maturity has MySQLNEt reached?
> 
> The same maturity any project at a alpha/beta version 0.68 might have.  Not
> finished, works pretty well, still has bugs.
> 
> Reggie
> 
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