[Haskelldb-users] Trying to build with ghc 6.10 : Is haskelldb still maintained ?

[Laurent G. <ml...@ni...>]

Hi,

I have been trying to build a working version of haskelldb from the  
packages available on hackage but couldn't manage to obtain one so far.

All packages I have tried required some adaptations for ghc 6.10.1 and  
I managed to build the following ones:

haskelldb-0.10
haskelldb-flat-0.10
haskelldb-hdbc-0.10

However, it is not possible for me to compile haskelldb-dynamic, which  
seems necessary to get the DBDirect program which analyzes the  
database. This is something that I inferred from my research on the  
web since the current documentation (or lack thereof) seems totally  
obsolete on that matter.

It fails because the package depends on the plugins package which  
can't be build with anything but cabal 1.4. Having ghc 6.10.1 with  
cabal 1.6 and not enough haskell skills I am completely stuck there.

It looks like installing ghc 6.8 or 6.6 with cabal 1.4 might help  
building everything properly but it wouldn't make much sense to work  
with an environment which by all standards is obsolete.

Moreover, I also failed at building a working driver, be it for hdbc,  
hsql (which seems utterly dead and unmaintained): hdbc-odbc doesn't  
build either since Setup.hs wants to use a function which is now  
obsolete.

I found that the code on http://code.haskell.org/haskelldb seems  
fresher than what is on hackage, but still couldn't build it...

Are there any plan to update haskelldb so it builds again with cabal  
1.6 and the recent versions of the modules it depends on or is this  
library not maintained anymore ?

My haskell capabilities do not allow me to do more than fix a few  
cabal broken dependencies unfortunately so I'd like to know if there's  
still hope that these problem can be fixed. I have been advised to try  
other database interfaces, such as HDBC or Takusen however they are  
very classic SQL wrappers which bring nothing more than what I can  
find for C++ or any other language out there...

Thanks in advance for any hints/information you might have.

Regards,
Laurent