Re: PL/Ruby for Informix

Gerardo Santana ha escrito: > Carsten Haese ha escrito: > > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:06 -0800, Gerardo Santana wrote: > > > I'm planning to write PL/Ruby for Informix. > > > > > > I've made some research and found that I need to implement a UDRLM > > > (User Defined Routine Language Manager.) > > > > > > There's nothing about creating a UDRLM in the manuals: > > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp > > > > > > Googling around I just found this: > > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6223179.html > > > > > > Does anybody know how can I get documentation about how to create my > > > own UDRLM? > > > > Good luck with that. Once you find out how to do this, let me know, I'd > > like to do the same for Python ;) > > Hello Carsten :) > > I've already mailed some people at IBM asking for documentation. When I > get an answer I'll let you know, pythonfan ;) > > But judging from the scarcity of the information on the web, I'm not > sure of a positive answer. I got the answer from IBM. Bad news. In their words: "Exposing UDRLM to add new languages is something we do not allow at this time." -- Gerardo Santana

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 10:41 -0800, Gerardo Santana wrote: > Bad news. In their words: "Exposing UDRLM to add new languages is > something we do not allow at this time." Bad news indeed, but not completely unexpected. There's not enough demand for additional UDR languages. I suppose IBM hasn't lost enough sales to PostgreSQL's superior selection of UDR languages. -Carsten