Am 13.03.2011 18:29, schrieb dsimcha:
One of the features I miss most in Phobos is support for SQLite. Several
people have written bindings and wrappers and haven't gotten much
attention. (For example: https://github.com/bayun/SQLite3-D ).
IMHO, we should do the following:
1. Put SQLite bindings and the C code (which is public domain) in etc.c,
just like zlib now. Put it in the docs, etc. to make sure people know
it's there. This will lower the barrier to entry for people who want to
make wrappers. These can probably be included without any review, since
they're a pile of well-tested C code and a fairly mechanical translation
of a header file.
2. Encourage people to make wrappers **after** the C code and bindings
are already "just there", ready to be used. With the barrier to entry
lowered, we might actually get someone who's serious enough about it to
take it through the whole review process, etc., rather than just dumping
a quick n' dirty post to the forum and then forgetting about it.
I think it's a good idea.
Regarding the wrappers: They should not be SQLite specific but generic
enough to work with any relational database. Something like JDBC. This
doesn't mean that all databases need to be supported from the beginning,
but the interfaces should be generic enough to allow writing drivers for
other databases (and probably at least support for MySQL or PostgreSQL
in addition to SQLite would be nice).
Anyway: Having bindings to SQLites C interface in etc.c is certainly a
good start.
Cheers,
- Daniel
