Excerpts from Gour's message of Sat Jan 03 03:48:44 -0600 2009: > Hi! > > I'd like to use sqlite3 as application storage in my haskell project... > > Browsing the available database options in Haskell it seems that: > > a) HSQL is dead (hackage reports build-failure with 6.8 & 6.10) > > b) haskelldb is also not in a good shape - build fails with 6.8 & 6.10 > > For Haskell-newbie as myself, it looks that haskelldb is the one which > provide(ed)s the most secure API (I was reading draft paper about > MetaHDBC but, apparently, the type inference support in open-source > databases is poor and that's why, according to the author "This is > unfortunately as it makes MetaHDBC a lot less valuable." > > What remains is: > > c) Takusen which is also not up-to-date (it fails with 6.10) and > > d) HDBC and sqlite bindings which are the only packages which build with > 6.10.
Have you tried the simple sqlite3 bindings available? http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sqlite > I'm not familiar with Takusen which says: "Takusen's unique selling > point is safety and efficiency..." and I would appreciate if someone > could shed some more light to its 'safety' and the present status? Takusen is based on the (unique) concept of a left-fold enumerator. Having a left-fold interface guarantees timely (nearly perfect, really) deallocation of resources while still having the benefits of a 'lazy' stream. This interface has (as shown by Oleg and others) proven to be very efficient in a number of cases as well as favorable for many. The idea is very novel, and truly worth exploring if you ask me. For more information about left-fold enumerators and takusen, see here: http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/LL3-collections-enumerators.txt http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/fold-stream.lhs http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/misc.html#takusen NB: I have *just* (about 5 minutes ago) sent in a patch for takusen to get it to build on GHC 6.10.1 to Oleg. Hopefully an updated version will appear on hackage in the next few days. Austin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
