Why are the Takusen module links on Hackage dead? I would also like to take this opportunity to request a Takusen tutorial and to thank you for this innovative library. -deech
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Jason Dagit <da...@codersbase.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David Anderson <d...@natulte.net> wrote: > > > > Congrats on the release. > > > > Just one humble suggestion: your email assumes that the reader already > > knows what Takusen is. Reading the email, all I can infer is that it > > has something to do with databases, because of the ODBC reference. The > > only link in the email also does nothing to explain, since it just > > links to a ball of code. The README there also assumes that I already > > know that I want Takusen, and so doesn't bother to explain what it > > does, only how to use it. > > Sorry about that. The description from hackage: > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Takusen > > Takusen: Database library with left-fold interface, for PostgreSQL, Oracle, > SQLite, ODBC. > > Takusen is a DBMS access library. Like HSQL and HDBC, we support arbitrary > SQL statements (currently strings, extensible to anything that can be > converted to a string). > > Takusen's unique selling point is safety and efficiency. We statically > ensure all acquired database resources - such as cursors, connections, and > statement handles - are released, exactly once, at predictable times. > Takusen can avoid loading the whole result set in memory, and so can handle > queries returning millions of rows in constant space. Takusen also supports > automatic marshalling and unmarshalling of results and query parameters. > These benefits come from the design of query result processing around a > left-fold enumerator. > > Currently we fully support ODBC, Oracle, Sqlite, and PostgreSQL. > > > >> Ideally, release announcements should always include a 1-sentence >> executive summary of what the project is, before heading on to what is >> new. Say, "The Takusen team would like to announce the latest release >> of Takusen, 0.8.6. Takusen is <insert description here, 'cos I'm still >> not quite sure>. This is primarily a bugfix release..." >> > > Thanks, I'll remember that. > > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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