[Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

mutjida:
> Hello,
> 
> >Would you go as far to say that when new programmers ask which database
> >binding to use, we should _recommend_ HDBC then?  (As we do gtk2hs, for
> >the gui libraries).
> 
> At this point in time, my advice to new Haskell programmers would be:
> first try Takusen, as long as it can connect to the server you're
> using (and don't hesitate to ask the maintainers and/or haskell-cafe
> questions); then try HDBC, perhaps avoiding the lazy retrieval
> function.

Thanks Jeff! That's exactly what I was looking for. 

Does anyone know why Takusen isn't on hackage yet? It appears to be
cabalised, and have a tarball:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:Database
    http://darcs.haskell.org/takusen/

-- Don