[Cuis-dev] ODBC error

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Mark,

What follows may be an intricate reading involving language, manners, 
and how the Open Source world works. Please read carefully.

On 10/20/2024 7:31 AM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I should have asked “Is it possible that nobody that uses Cuis 
> Smalltalk in macOS accesses relational databases?”

Who knows? Cuis Smalltalk is MIT license you get the whole system, free 
for any use, without any obligations. That means that you are not 
required to disclose what you do with it. As a consequence of that, the 
answer to "it is possible that nobody that uses Cuis Smalltalk does 
XXX?" is true, for any XXX. Does this matter? I don't think so.

A much better way to react would be something like "Hi Folks. I'm trying 
to do XXX. I know the system is fully open and explicitly designed to 
make it easy for me to solve my technical problems, but I'm still unable 
to do so. Has anybody faced these kinds of problems I'm seeing before, 
and is willing to help me?".

That will indeed work much better.

Additionally, some comment from you revealing that you have already read 
the contents of the /Documentation/Technical folder would be 
appreciated. Your first message made me believe you hadn't realized you 
had trouble calling an API via FFI. But Jon's answer doesn't tell you 
that, and assumes you already know that. Your following message makes me 
now believe that you know that the problem may be "how to reference a 
lib path in the Open Smalltalk VM", indeed being aware that this is a 
problem with FFI.

Once you realize that, you may also realize that this problem has almost 
nothing to do with Cuis Smalltalk. A bit of googling shows people asking 
similar (but better formed) questions in nginx and lua.

I'm starting to have doubts about your intellectual honesty while asking 
these questions. I think the Cuis community deserves better than this.

Thanks,

>
> ---
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
>> On Oct 20, 2024, at 6:26 AM, Mark Volkmann 
>> <r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Yikes! Sounds complicated. Can you point me to any documentation 
>> that describes how I could reference a lib path in the Open Smalltalk 
>> VM?
>>
>> Is it possible that nobody that uses Cuis Smalltalk accesses 
>> relational databases?
>>
>> ---
>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Object Computing, Inc.
>>
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