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And yet not uncommon. We (Django) had a rather frustrating mailing-list exchange with IBM folks who wanted to build a DB2 driver for Django; they claimed their
by ubernostrum 17y ago
And yet not uncommon. We (Django) had a rather frustrating mailing-list exchange with IBM folks who wanted to build a DB2 driver for Django; they claimed their corporate policies wouldn't allow them to look at the existing Django DB backends, or anything BSD-licensed, to gather information on the API.
- henriklied 17y agoWow, are you serious? What ended up as the solution?
- ubernostrum 17y agoHere's the django-dev thread: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/80f73f8bbf93c039/09223a3b6d071a2c http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thre... Eventually they wrote an adapter; I don't have any idea how they got the API spec, since they swore up and down they couldn't look at existing code. (and, to be honest, the initial released version of their DB2 adapter showed some serious issues which may be related to not understanding how the code was supposed to work)