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

[Justin B. <jgb...@gm...>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Laurent Giroud <ml...@ni...> wrote:
> 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's probably easier to write your own "DBDirect" like program than
use the one in the distribution.

> 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 am on Windows and have used HDBC-postgres successfully with haskelldb.

> 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 ?

haskelldb hasn't seen a lot of love lately, but people do still commit
fixes. But as you have found it, it's not updated very frequently. If
you can get it building though, it's a pretty neat library. I used it
to generate SQL queries and then executed those separately, but even
for that it was a great library.

Justin