Yeah, most of the work needed to push forward is building C wrappers. -- John
On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Randy Zwitch <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the types of skills needed to get this off the ground? I know > ODBC.jl is a bunch of wrapping of C functions, is that's what's required here > as well? > > > On Monday, January 27, 2014 12:30:22 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote: > I've been intentionally holding off on announcing this work (because it's not > even close to being ready for practical use yet), but I've been working with > Eric Davies on a generic database access module in Julia called DBI: > > https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/DBI.jl > > The goal of DBI is to provide a consistent interface that specific database > drivers can implement. Between Eric and me, some work's been done on > implementing this for SQLite, MySQL and Postgres: > > https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/SQLite.jl > https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/MySQL.jl > https://github.com/iamed2/PostgreSQL.jl > > I've unfortunately slowed down so that I can fix up DataFrames, but I've seen > a bunch of people working on database support recently and wanted to > encourage collaboration early on. > > Would be great to get everyone interested in database support to work > together. I can't be in charge of this for another few weeks, but wanted to > start a discussion so that everyone can collaborate effectively. > > -- John >
