On 12/11/06, Paul Moore
The point I was trying (badly!) to make was that without sample code on how to do "trivial" queries, I can't work out which library is closest to what I want. And without installation instructions, I can't try them out.
Well, if anyone has that sample code, someone who is reading this mailing list probably does. But if you can't find even simple sample code, that's probably a sign that not a lot of people have tried to write large database applications in Haskell using the existing libraries, or at all. I may be wrong, but I suspect that that's true. Somebody has to be first. So this is your cue to RTFS. And I'm trying to say "RTFS" in the nicest possible way in which I can say it. With an "F" that stands for "friendly" although I suspect that the code is going to look to you like anything but.
This is my first real experience with trying to obtain and use a 3rd party library with Haskell, so I apologise if these are newbie-level dumb issues. I'm not trying to complain, but I do suspect there is an issue here with easy library availability that the Haskell community could look at. Python was in a similar situation for a long time, and I suspect it's just a bit further down the track. Certainly from what I've seen of Cabal, it's similar in philosophy to Python's distutils. But this is going off on a tangent - maybe I'll revisit it when I've got some more experience under my belt with installing DB libraries :-)
Don't apologize; you're not being dumb. But, you have to realize that if you're using Haskell at all, you *are* the Haskell community. Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "...I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda." -- Anne Lamott