On Nov 28, 2007 10:11 AM, manu
Hello
I've spent a few days trying to install all the packages required to use HaskellDB with either MySQL or SQlite3 (the only 2 DB the host I was thinking about is supporting)
I'm not surprised you had this much trouble. If you are also building on Windows, prepare to be extremely persistent. That said, you should really look at the HDBC bindings, rather than haskelldb. haskelldb looks awesome but when you see the queries it produces you will cry. The first problem is "DISTINCT" is added to all queries. It's also unable to do joins. Finally, it's not really actively maintained. HDBC, on the other hand, compiles OK on Windows (once you figure out some tricky bits) and presumably works excellent on *nix. You may have a lot more luck there. Don't feel too bad - you aren't the first to have this experience and certainly not the last. If you want to give back, write up what you learned (or didn't learn) on the wiki: www.haskell.org. Justin