Re: Best or standard Tcl/Informix interface?

In article <3g0jioINNnte@news.rz.uni-passau.de>, Michael Gengenbach <gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de> wrote: >Hi, > >we need an interface from Tcl to the Informix database system. Because >there seem to be several possibilities we'd like to receive some >recommendations. > >Do you have experience with a Tcl/SQL-interface? Is there a best >interface or even one that is becoming a standard? Even if it's not >especially designed for Informix. > >The possibilities I know of are the following: > > isqltcl specific for Informix, rather small and without man page > sql_tcl seems to be an older version of the former > oratcl specific for Oracle, looks reasonable > tclsql specific for Inges, looks reasonable You forgot one option, use embedded SQL in 'C' with Tcl/Tk as only a front end. This is what we did for a large project. This gives much better performance than doing database stuff in Tcl. Greg