Ketil Malde wrote:
I think this is the problem, not the solution. There is a lot of DB
libraries, just like there are a multitude of XML libraries, several
collections, etc. Too many libraries are written as research projects
or by grad students, and left to rot after release. The fragmentation
also means that few libraries see any extensive testing - I was a bit
surprised that apparently none of the XML libraries can handle files
larger than a few megabytes, for instance.
You're probably right that one of them would work, but especially new
users will have no way of knowing which one. Only after the user
has given up do people post similar experiences.
This is getting better, of course - hackage will grow usage
and activity statistics and perhaps ratings, the wiki will be extended
with recommendations, more people will get involved in development.
But at the moment, this is a problem.
This is one of the more frustrating aspects of Haskell. It's not that
nobody has written DB bindings - they most certainly have. It's not that
nobody has written compression or cryptography bindings - they have.
It's that there is a small zoo of them, and it's really hard to pick out
which ones are the "good" ones. I really hope this does improve in time.
(And I really wish I could do something positive to make this happen...)
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