Re: [open-cobol-list] OpenCOBOL-ce-1.1 : repackaging libcob/common.h

[Joe Robbins]

Thanks Brian. I hadn't seen the 2009-05-25  entry in ChangeLog. I'll reflect on 
the alternatives for common.h.

Coincidentally (relating to your emails with Patrick on SQL), when writing my 
notes on the fileio rewrite (available soon!), amongst the "future possible 
enhancements" I had listed support for INDEXED ORGANIZATION using an ODBC 
database interface. This would provide the option to use MySQL, Microsoft SQL 
Server EXPRESS, etc as the store for INDEXED files as an alternative to VBISAM, 
BDB, etc. This is not a substitute for an SQL interface - the COBOL programmer 
would notice no difference. But it could provide a resilient, efficient, ... 
storage mechanism.

Regards

Joe Robbins
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From: Brian Tiffin <address@hidden>
Sent: 15 September 2013 23:40
To: Joe Robbins
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Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] OpenCOBOL-ce-1.1 : repackaging libcob/common.h


Not sure Joe.  But I found the entry below in the libcob/ChangeLog.
Not much of a hint as to the rationale, but it does look like a design
intent.

2009-05-25  Roger While <address@hidden>

        * General : Remove the following extraneous include files:
       byteswap.h, call.h, fileio.h, intrinsic.h, move.h, numeric.h,
       screenio.h, strings.h, termio.h by integration into common.h
       as first step

I didn't find any comments on what step 2 was supposed to be at the time.

I'm not sure how to best fix this for the CE cuts, but I'd be ok with
a split back to 'extraneous' headers, with the caveat that I'll always
defer to Simon for decisions on these commits.

Cheers,
Brian