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".