[Haskell-cafe] Merge hsql and HDBC -- there can only be one!

[aditya siram]

If there is no real difference the one that is better supported (with
tutorials, examples etc.) will dominate the other. I don't see a
reason to unify them. Let them duke it out :)

-deech

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Daugherty <drcygnus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, the point remains, we need a single goto database library.
>>
>> Though the lack of response to this thread makes me think no one
>> particularly thinks this is a problem.
>
> This is an interesting problem.  For my part, I suspect the
> proliferation of high-level database libraries is going to continue.
> If you were to convince the present package maintainers to pitch in
> and build a Grand Database Library, inevitably someone would come
> along and build another one for whatever reason.  Also, I don't think
> the dust has settled on techniques for database access in Haskell in
> any case, even for RDBMSs in particular.
>
> Since I couldn't agree more that duplication of effort is a sad thing,
> I think a good place to start is for people to write database library
> binding-only packages that get used by higher-level libraries like
> HDBC and Takusen.  Such libraries should include memory management
> hooks specific to the sematics of the engine in question.  There are a
> couple of libraries for this on Hackage already, but they don't appear
> to be used by any of the high-level database abstraction libraries.
>
> Otherwise I'd ask: what qualifies as a "go-to" library?  Which users
> should it satisfy?  How accessible should it be?  Most answers I can
> think of lead me to believe enough people will be put off by it that
> other libraries will pop up. :)
>
> --
>  Jonathan Daugherty
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