[Haskelldb-users] HaskellDB - Towards v 2.0

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

All,

Back in June of 2009, Bjorn Bringert passed the maintenance of
HaskellDB to me. My desire since then has been to get HaskellDB to a
2.0 release.

I think this library is the best SQL modeling tool I've ever used. I
have used a lot of ORM & SQL-wrapper libraries during my career and
HaskellDB is the first that I've found which does not require you to
break its abstraction eventually.

However, HaskellDB needs better marketing. Most importantly, it needs
better documentation. Learning to use the the library was a fun
challenge but not one that many people are willing to take, when they
can easily write SQL by hand and execute it via HDBC or other database
libraries.

To that end, I am asking for your help in getting HaskellDB to v2.0
quality. I have two approaches:

  * I have created a wiki at http://trac.haskell.org/haskelldb/, which
will consolidate all existing HaskellDB information. Please help by
filling out the topic areas. In particular, showing how to connect to
each supported database is very important.

  * The source repo now contains an examples/ directory. I would like
working examples of each query operator to be available there. Joins,
calculated projections and subqueries should also be shown. The
queries here should just be used to show what SQL is generated - they
shouldn't need a particular database connection. The queries should be
against the tables included in that directory.

I'll take contributions for the next couple of weeks and then upload a
new release to Hackage.