HSQL defunct?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 04:46 +0000, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there going to be a new maintainer for HSQL? I have submitted a
> number of patches to fix some painful bugs. It's been almost a year
> since my previous enquiry and the last release was December 15, 2005,
> over two years ago:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65248
> 
> The software no longer compiles with the latest version of GHC, due to
> some (seemingly gratuitous) changes in the Cabal libraries (I see
> there is a September 2007 thread on libraries@). Unfortunately, I am
> too busy to maintain it myself; I was probably even too busy to write
> the patches in the first place, but it is sad to see them go to
> waste...

Gentoo has patches to make hsql-* build with ghc-6.8.x which you or any
volunteer maintainer may find useful.

Duncan