Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-06 Thread Paul Brown
On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Chris Eidhof wrote: 1. hdbc. I'd like to connect to MySQL, so I need the ODBC backend. I couldn't get this to work under OS X, while I installed myodbc, which seems to be broken. FWIW, I've had good luck with the SQLite3 bindings for HDBC on MacOS X. I had a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-06 Thread Don Stewart
prb: On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Chris Eidhof wrote: 1. hdbc. I'd like to connect to MySQL, so I need the ODBC backend. I couldn't get this to work under OS X, while I installed myodbc, which seems to be broken. FWIW, I've had good luck with the SQLite3 bindings for HDBC on MacOS

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-05 Thread Paul Visschers
Hey Chris, I've been fiddling around with the database stuff myself and I had the same problems (on Linux). I eventually got both HaskellDB and HSQL to work, and am now using HSQL because HaskellDB had very poor documentation. I don't exactly know how I eventually got HSQL-MySQL to work, but I

[Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-04 Thread Chris Eidhof
Hey everyone, I'm figuring out how to do databases in Haskell (on OS X). So far, I've tried the following approaches: 1. hdbc. I'd like to connect to MySQL, so I need the ODBC backend. I couldn't get this to work under OS X, while I installed myodbc, which seems to be broken. 2. hsql.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of database libraries

2008-07-04 Thread Alistair Bayley
2008/7/4 Chris Eidhof [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm figuring out how to do databases in Haskell (on OS X). So far, I've tried the following approaches: 1. hdbc. I'd like to connect to MySQL, so I need the ODBC backend. I couldn't get this to work under OS X, while I installed myodbc, which seems