haskelldb-users

[Haskelldb-users] Status of HaskellDB

[Luke P. <L.P...@ca...>]

Hi,

I am trying to use HaskellDB for a real project, and due to the amount=20
of broken stuff, and the lack of any recent updates to web pages and so=20
on, is anyone in a position to tell me the status of the project --=20
like is it dead or not?

Broken stuff includes:

=2D test suite doesn't even compile (patch attached)
  This suggests that no-one is running tests.

=2D I can't get test suite or DBDirect to run at all.
  I get errors like this:

Connecting to database...
DBDirect: user error (Couldn't load=20
Database.HaskellDB.HDBC.PostgreSQL.driver from package=20
haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-0.10)

=46rom the archives, it looks like this might be a problem with=20
hs-plugins, but I don't have the expertise to know how to diagnose or=20
fix this (I'm no Haskell expert, I just want a database library!).

Out of date information includes:

* http://haskelldb.sourceforge.net/getting-started.html -- pretty out of=20
date compared to version in darcs

* Good sources of information are supposedly:
 http://www.scannedinavian.org/AvianWiki/HaskellDbTutorial
 http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDbTutorial

but both of these 404.  The old 'hawiki' wiki disappeared a month or so=20
ago, I don't know why.

Thanks for your time,

Luke

=2D-=20
"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualise world
 peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the
 looting started" -- Anon

Luke Plant || http://lukeplant.me.uk/

Re: [Haskelldb-users] Status of HaskellDB

[Shae M. E. <sh...@Sc...>]

Luke Plant <L.P...@ca...> writes:

> * http://haskelldb.sourceforge.net/getting-started.html -- pretty out of=
=20
> date compared to version in darcs
>
> * Good sources of information are supposedly:
>  http://www.scannedinavian.org/AvianWiki/HaskellDbTutorial

I looked on my old drive, but I couldn't find a copy of this.
Lemmih had updated it most recently, he might have something.

>  http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDbTutorial

This was just a version of the previous url.

> but both of these 404.  The old 'hawiki' wiki disappeared a month or so=20
> ago, I don't know why.

The old hawiki had some misleading information, but had been made immutable=
,=20
so it was best to get rid of it.
=2D-=20
Programming is the Magic Executable Fridge Poetry, | www.ScannedInAvian.com
It is machines made of thought, fueled by ideas.   | -- Shae Matijs Erisson

Re: [Haskelldb-users] Status of HaskellDB

[<bri...@cs...>]

Luke Plant wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Luke,

> I am trying to use HaskellDB for a real project, and due to the amount 
> of broken stuff, and the lack of any recent updates to web pages and so 
> on, is anyone in a position to tell me the status of the project -- 
> like is it dead or not?

I'd say that the code is generally not dead, but the homepage and 
documentation are. I use HaskellDB in Hope (http://hope.bringert.net/), 
and I at least keep the parts needed for that alive. That does not 
include DBDirect or the test suite.

I don't have a lot of time, so it would be very welcome if anyone would 
like to fix the homepage and/or documentation.

> Broken stuff includes:
> 
> - test suite doesn't even compile (patch attached)
>   This suggests that no-one is running tests.

True. Thanks for the patch, I've pushed it to the darcs repo.

> - I can't get test suite or DBDirect to run at all.
>   I get errors like this:
> 
> Connecting to database...
> DBDirect: user error (Couldn't load 
> Database.HaskellDB.HDBC.PostgreSQL.driver from package 
> haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-0.10)
> 
> From the archives, it looks like this might be a problem with 
> hs-plugins, but I don't have the expertise to know how to diagnose or 
> fix this (I'm no Haskell expert, I just want a database library!).

Yes, this is a hs-plugins problem. I'm not sure what the problem is, but 
I believe it is some change of functionality in current hs-plugins 
versions. Again, help is welcome.

> Out of date information includes:
> 
> * http://haskelldb.sourceforge.net/getting-started.html -- pretty out of 
> date compared to version in darcs
> 
> * Good sources of information are supposedly:
>  http://www.scannedinavian.org/AvianWiki/HaskellDbTutorial
>  http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDbTutorial
> 
> but both of these 404.  The old 'hawiki' wiki disappeared a month or so 
> ago, I don't know why.

I think those were pretty out of date as well by the time they disappeared.

/Björn