One thing that would be nice is a unification of the general database libraries hsql and HDBC. What is the difference between them? Why are there two, and why are there sets of drivers for both (duplication of effort?)? I've used both in the past but I can't discern a real big difference (I used the hsql-sqlite library and the HDBC-postgresql library, whichever worked...). It seems the best thing to do is either actively merge them together and encourage the community to move from one to the other -- judging from what I've read HDBC is more up to date and newer than hsql -- or have some documentation with damn good reasons to choose one or the other, because currently this is a needless source of confusion and possible duplication of effort for Haskell's database libraries. I wasn't going to post until I'd actually researched the difference myself properly but I didn't get chance to have a look over the weekend, but I thought I'd pose the question. Do people actually care about this?