FWIW, +1. Sorry for not speaking up sooner, I just don't have much to add: of the three, I've only used HDBC.
Michael On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Christopher Done <chrisd...@googlemail.com>wrote: > I did try Takusen with PostgreSQL and it worked perfectly for me, too. > The only reason I'm using HDBC is because there was already a > HaskellDB HDBC driver. I was considering writing a Takusen driver for > HaskellDB, in fact (if possible). > > Anyway, the point remains, we need a single goto database library. I > don't know if Takusen's left-fold typeable way of doing things is > different enough to disqualify it from The Great Merge or not. Though > the lack of response to this thread makes me think no one particularly > thinks this is a problem. Is it worth the effort having one very high > quality stable library instead of three fairly okay > not-really-that-different maybe-working libraries? > > On 7 July 2010 19:29, Gregory Crosswhite <gcr...@phys.washington.edu> > wrote: > > I've been using Takusen for all of my database needs, which most of the > > time means interfacing to a PostgreSQL database, and it has worked out > > pretty well in practice. In fact, I experimented with hsql and HDBC a > while > > back and for some reason I can't remember they turned out to be less > > convenient than Takusen so I changed the code I was working on back over > to > > Takusen. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > > > On 7/7/10 2:17 AM, Nick Rudnick wrote: > >> > >> Hi Chris, > >> > >> > >> these are good questions -- actually, you might have mentioned Takusen, > >> too. > >> > >> Clearly, HDBC is the largest of these projects, and there are lots of > >> things well done there. > >> > >> Takusen has an interesting approach, and I would like to see a > discussion > >> here about the practical outcomes, as I have done no testing yet. > >> > >> I myself quite a time ago had an opportunity to do a Haskell job with a > >> PostgreSQL backend for a client, where I tried out all three and got > hsql > >> running easiest. A maintainer was vacant, so I stepped in happily -- > doing > >> refactorings, fixing problems at request, giving advice to people. > >> > >> I can say that I am quite a little PostgreSQL centric and that I have a > >> GIS project in sight, for which I want to try to adapt hsql. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Nick > >> > >> > >> Christopher Done wrote: > >>> > >>> One thing that would be nice is a unification of the general database > >>> libraries hsql and HDBC. What is the difference between them? Why are > >>> there two, and why are there sets of drivers for both (duplication of > >>> effort?)? I've used both in the past but I can't discern a real big > >>> difference (I used the hsql-sqlite library and the HDBC-postgresql > >>> library, whichever worked...). It seems the best thing to do is either > >>> actively merge them together and encourage the community to move from > >>> one to the other -- judging from what I've read HDBC is more up to > >>> date and newer than hsql -- or have some documentation with damn good > >>> reasons to choose one or the other, because currently this is a > >>> needless source of confusion and possible duplication of effort for > >>> Haskell's database libraries. > >>> > >>> I wasn't going to post until I'd actually researched the difference > >>> myself properly but I didn't get chance to have a look over the > >>> weekend, but I thought I'd pose the question. Do people actually care > >>> about this? > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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