On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 01:11 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
DBM's can differentiate themselves on external database support,
Surely this is an opportunity to focus development on a single library with broader support? Currently, we have HSQL and HDBC supplying incompatible low-level interfaces, supporting a different set of back ends. No matter what I choose, I risk having to make a costly conversion later on.
XML is not simple and does not interface to third party programs. I can think of at least 4 XML libraries, all of which are quite different.
...and at least some of them come with their own re-implementation of Data.Tree. I think competition and choice can be great, but I also think it is important to have a good default libraries to turn to for, well, "production stable" software. -k