On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Ketil Malde wrote:
I think this is the problem, not the solution. There is a lot of DB libraries, just like there are a multitude of XML libraries, several collections, etc. Too many libraries are written as research projects or by grad students, and left to rot after release. The fragmentation also means that few libraries see any extensive testing - I was a bit surprised that apparently none of the XML libraries can handle files larger than a few megabytes, for instance.
Hello My post wasn't intended as raging criticism, I can guess that developping these libraries takes a lot of (unpaid) work. And I am grateful for these libraries no matter what. However, if what is needed to install and use MySQL (or another popular DB) from Haskell could be drastically made shorter and easier, more people might use Haskell in domains where it still is largely marginal (like say... websites). Manu