Re: [Haskelldb-users] Status of HaskellDB

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 Out of date information includes: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I think those were pretty out of date as well by the time they disappeared.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