FFI and ODBC connectivity

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Yes, it's being looked after, so should you come across
problems using it, please let me know.

Re: HaskellDB, I added MySQL support to it a while ago,
which is one route to get it to work on non-Windows platform.
Releasing these changes would probably be a good idea.

Having said that, going through ODBC does sound like a
potentially more valuable thing to do.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com>
To: "Jamie Love" <jlove@eservglobal.co.nz>; "Haskell Mailing List"
<haskell@haskell.org>
Cc: <sof@galois.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 08:15
Subject: RE: FFI and ODBC connectivity


> 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]
> | Sent: 05 June 2002 06:30
> | To: Haskell Mailing List
> | Subject: FFI and ODBC connectivity
> |
> |
> | Hello all,
> |
> | Currently I am investigating the availability of haskell to
> | ODBC connectivity and have been excited by the possibilities.
> | Downloading the HaskellDB package
> | (http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskellDB/)
> | and having it run was fantastic.
> |
> | In the interests of continuing the work of HaskellDB, I wish
> | to have this system work under Linux. Before attempting to
> | extend HaskellDB to support ODBC (and work through unixODBC -
> 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
> have yet to investigate those available, so any direction on which
> 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,
> --
> Jamie Love
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>
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