Re: [Gnumed-devel] getting closer to a version that "makes sense"

[Horst Herb]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:05, Ian Haywood wrote:
> Ages ago I wrote a Postgres client library in Python (just for fun really)
> which I attach, it took me about as long to write as getting mx+ pypgsql to
> compile on my system.
>
> If we have to maintain pypgsql ourselves there seems little downside to
> using this, it cuts our dependencies from 4 to 2. (python, wxpython) We get
> better error messages, stored queries, pipelining, etc. because we're using
> the new wire protocol.

I vote for using Ian's implementation.
He is right - reducing dependencies is invaluable, and it enables us to run 
gnumed clients on a lot more platforms (e.g. handhelds) with non-wx user 
interfaces (e.g. console interface)

Hasanybody done a brief performance assessment? Judging from the code, I would 
*not* expect any noticeable performance drawbacks.

Horst