[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Out of date information includes: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
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 looting started" -- Anon

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