Re: iACS ODBC Driver on Linux: Segfault in libcwbcore.so

Hello Cesco,

Am 02.07.2025 um 15:33 schrieb cesco via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Out of curiosity, a full heavily threaded MS stack running over a unix odbc layer or I misunderstand? Are you guys masochistic? :D :P

What's your point? We chose one way to go forward within the confines of available hires, established skills, and actual needs for automation of tasks, and data presentation.

If you have better suggestions, I'm all ears.

Seriously, print based "debugger" won't get spectacularly far, at minimum a coredump and gdb or similar.

That's what I suspect also. But this might be the road to hell: Debugging on this low level where your actual code is highly abstracted by the .NET runtime.

The .NET guy blames the IBM ODBC driver being buggy, and wants to migrate off platform, to Postgresql, because that's what he used in his last employment with success.

In the end, as a mere advisor, it's not up to me to decide how and where to go. I'm just feeling the reward of thinking "saw this coming" with all the increasing abstraction taking place in modern programming, and adopting "new" techniques just to appear innovative. I'm doing my programming — as a hobbyist — the classic way and feel the rewards of easier debugging and less overall complexity. :-)

I agree with you that this async everywhere - is - kool is pretty debatable, especially when calling in external code, that can serialize anyway certain critical section anyway... and especially when talking then to remotes that have different constraints... async has is place, it is nice to have it as option, but as the default mode of functioning and modeling of code ... ehm.. .no... should be a deliberate choice (in some modules)... IMHO obviously

Well, you can't argue about taste, can you. :-) I have no clue about .NET/C#/Blazor, and no intention to change that. But the goal of quickly and almost effortless developing a working application with a web UI seems to be the foremost motivation to stay within this world. And take all the kewl stuff which comes "for free". At least compared to doing this "by hand" with C or other languages. I'm not a professional programmer, and much of my thinking is based more on opinion than fact. In the end, I'm just glad, it's not my problem, and will never be my profession. :-)

:wq! PoC