Re: [MacPerl] Frontier/MacPerl dictionary

[Georges Martin <georges.martin@deboeck.be>]

>>By the way, this idea may bring up another idea: that of building a kind of
>>file based "Object Database" that can be used from MacPerl.  We could use
>>some special folder in the MacPerl folder, and store in it files containing
>>data or some global values, and use them from MacPerl...
>
>This is absolutely great idea. I always wondered why nobody had ever done 
>this.
>I really don't think there's anything special about Frontier's web management
>facilities.

Why a "kind of file based Object Database" when you can have the real 
thing ? :-)

The Frontier Object Database is available as a separate library :

 <http://www.scripting.com/Gimme5/odb/>


Brad Pettit has even written a C++ wrapper for it :

 <http://www.thunderbaydesign.com/Pages/index.html>


>One might wonder "why didn't you build it yourself?". 

I just bought my copy of CodeWarrior, so it's a bit too early for me :-)

Anybody else ?  (Chris ? ;-)


Georges Martin

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