On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:46:44 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
What I *can* do, is to attempt to install one of the libraries that looks closest to what I want (probably HDBC, because I'm familiar with the Python DB-API). But I honestly have little or no idea how to start - following the HDBC link on the Haskell Wiki leads to a huge list of tar.gz files, with no indication of which one I might want :-(
You're right, and that's my fault, and something I hope to fix this weekend. In the interim, you will want the latest hdbc_*.tar.gz file, then the latest hdbc-odbc_*.tar.gz file. You will connect to Oracle using the ODBC backend for HDBC. I can't help you set up your Oracle ODBC drivers, but once you have that going, connecting up to it should be fairly trivial. As far as example code goes, I've written a few programs that use HDBC. Check out DB.hs in hpodder (http://software.complete.org/hpodder) or gopherbot (http://darcs.complete.org/gopherbot). -- John