Hi Paul, as Simon notes, I maintain HaskellDB. I think that HaskellDB isn't exactly what you are looking for at the moment. You seem to want to run SQL queries, and HaskellDB is designed to free you from writing SQL. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but HSQL 1.7 includes Oracle support (though I haven't tested it). You can get it from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=65248&package_id=93958 Here's what I would do in your situation: 1. Join the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. 2. Try to install your chosen library. 3. Ask questions in the IRC channel when you run into problems. Chances are that you will have some library and Cabal developers there to help you. /Björn On 12 dec 2006, at 10.11, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Paul
The people you want are probably
HDBC John Goerzen [jgoerzen@complete.org]
HaskellDB Anders Höckersten [chucky@dtek.chalmers.se] and Bjorn Bringert [d00bring@dtek.chalmers.se]
HSQL Krasimir Angelov [ka2_mail@yahoo.com]
Takusen Bayley, Alistair [Alistair_Bayley@ldn.invesco.com]
(did I miss any?)
They probably haven't been online since your msg, but I'm sure they'll be keen to help you use the fruit of their labours -- and would welcome your help in documenting them better. You might also find help on the #haskell IRC channel.
Simon
| OK, thanks for the gentle push. After a bit of digging, I decided that | the takusen link looked like a darcs repository, and I downloaded | darcs and got takusen. I installed GHC 6.6 in a spare VM (no PC round | I can install stuff on just now, I'll do this properly later). On the | assumption that the takusen.cabal file means I should look at Cabal, I | had a dig and found the incantation "runhaskell setup.hs".