SQLite/LiveCode Issues

[Richard Gaskin]

In May 2012, Peter Haworth wrote:

 > The SQLite library included with Livecode up to 5.0 is 3.7.4.
 > It dates from about 1 1/2 years ago and there have been 7
 > major releases of the library since then including several
 > enhancements and performance improvements.
 >
 > The library includes support for two of the three components
 > of the SQLite Full Text Search extension, fts3 and fts4, but
 > not ftsaux.  The rtree extension is included in the library
 > but is not available because it has to be enabled at compile time.
 >
 > SQLite include a load_extension function that provides the capability
 > of loading extensions from an external library.  That extension is
 > not exposed to Livecode.

Full message here:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-May/171969.html>

I stumbled across this while searching the list for info on SQLite, and 
raises an intriguing question:

Now that LC is open source, what would it take to update the SQLite 
version and expose these newer optional features?

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