Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Coppin
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Andrew, Thursday, November 29, 2007, 11:51:32 PM, you wrote: 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 -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread Ketil Malde
Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And it reminds me to release the galois sqlite3 bindings, which do happily work with 6.8. Surely one of the other 15 haskell db bindings would also work. I think this is the problem, not the solution. There is a lot of DB libraries, just like there are a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread manu
On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:49 AM, 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 19:11 +0100, manu wrote: Hello I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting) Well, I am giving up ! I seriously regret replacing ghc-6.6

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Duncan Coutts wrote: Probably the best eventual solution for Windows is to build infrastructure to make binary packages for Windows. People are working on that. Do you mean the problem has been noticed or do you actually mean code is being written and tested?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-28 Thread Don Stewart
emmanuel.delaborde: Hello I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting) Well, I am giving up ! I seriously regret replacing ghc-6.6 with ghc-6.8, I didn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and DB : giving up

2007-11-28 Thread Olivier Boudry
On Nov 28, 2007 1:11 PM, manu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting) Well, I am giving up ! I seriously regret replacing