FFI and ODBC connectivity

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

HaskellDirect  (or HDirect for short) is very much alive and
being actively maintained by Sigbjorn Finne.
	http://www.haskell.org/hdirect/

It's built on top of the Haskell FFI, but it is much higher level.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jamie Love [mailto:jlove@eservglobal.co.nz]=20
| Sent: 05 June 2002 06:30
| To: Haskell Mailing List
| Subject: FFI and ODBC connectivity
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| Hello all,
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| Currently I am investigating the availability of haskell to=20
| ODBC connectivity and have been excited by the possibilities.=20
| Downloading the HaskellDB package=20
| (http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskellDB/)
| and having it run was fantastic.
|=20
| In the interests of continuing the work of HaskellDB, I wish=20
| to have this system work under Linux. Before attempting to=20
| extend HaskellDB to support ODBC (and work through unixODBC -=20
http://www.unixodbc.org) I wish to ensure that my efforts are not
misdirected.

My questions include:
Is HaskellDB dead? Is it worth extending? (I very much wish to keep the
	type safety HaskellDB has).
Is HaskellDirect dead or superseeded by the Haskell FFI?

I am having difficulty discovering which FFI technology/package is still
useful, viable and alive, the same applies to ODBC connectivity
packages.

The second set of libraries I am interested in is HTML/CGI libraries. I=20
have yet to investigate those available, so any direction on which=20
library package is currently live and well would also be useful.

The reason for these queries is that I wish to write pure Haskell
software based heavily around both a database backend and HTML frontend.

Thankyou,
--=20
Jamie Love
Phone: +64 4 9393425

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	 involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. - "
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