On 2005-02-04, Dimitry Golubovsky
Hi,
Has anyone tried/been successful on developing such a binding?
Funny you should ask. I released one yesterday. http://quux.org/devel/missingpy/html/MissingPy.AnyDBM.html#v%3AopenSpecificD... (Download from http://quux.org/devel/missingpy/) That does go via Python, but Python uses the C binding so the performance hit should be minimal. Python is also highly portable and easy to install, so the convenience hit should also be minimal. Python is also a strongly typed language with exceptions that get propogated into Haskell, so the reliability hit should also be minimal :-) FWIW, this binding works with any *dbm that is supported by Python, which includes dbhash, (n)dbm, gdbm, and its own dumbdbm. I also wrote a StringDBM available in my MissingH library (quux.org/devel/missingh). It is slow and simple, using a HashTable as an in-memory representation and reading/writing it from disk as needed. If all you need is simple persistence, that may do it for you, without requiring any non-Haskell binding at all. If you need the other benefits of *dbm, MissingPy may be what you need. -- John