[Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: Tim Docker [mailto:timd at macquarie.com.au] 
> 
> Alistair Bayley wrote:
> 
> > I want to interface Takusen with MS Sql Server,
> > but AFAICT the recommended C API is OLE DB, which
> > is a COM API.
> 
> An alternative would be to write a takusen <-> freetds binding
> (http://www.freetds.org/). This would have the potential benefits of
> being
> 
>     * cross platform (ie windows and linux)
>     * multi db (ie ms-sql and sybase)
> 
> I should admit that there's a bit of self-interest here... 
> I'd use such a binding it it existed.

Interesting. I did not know that existed.

A while ago I started working on a native MS Sql Server backend using
db-lib, but then I read that db-lib was no longer maintained, and the
OLE DB library was the recommended low-level API.

It looks as though I could switch over to freetds, keep most of the
db-lib code I've already written, and provide a back-end that works with
Sybase too. This seems more appealing than learning how to do COM
programming :-)

Apologies to Simon-PJ: it seems my demand for better COM tools has just
evaporated.

Alistair
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