Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Towards release 1.1

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:14:43AM +0200, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> > > waiting for OCaml DBI 's author Richard Johns answer.
> > > Everybody is of course welcome in contributing documentation,
comments, or
> > > code before next release.
> >
> > Today :
> > - added Base64 IO support (for mapping an IO with a Base64 encoding) and
> > documentation
> > - committed dbi.ml and dbi.ml , common DB interfaces for OCamlDBI.
>
> Have you added OcamlDBI itself, or simply some sort of interface to it?
> If the latter, what is the point, given than OcamlDBI is itself a
> generic interface?  If the former, what is the point, given that
> OcamlDBI already exists? :-)

It's OcamlDBI itself, but only the "common headers" since the drivers needs
C code.
It was included in ExtLib with the agreement of Richard Jones, for the sake
of widespread of both librairies. Later, OcamlDBI might be only maintained
into the ExtLib CVS tree, but nothing has been decided yet.

Best Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse