Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANN] mysql-simple - your go-to package for talking to MySQL

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:34 PM, cheater cheater wrote:

Hi, does the package adhere to some form of standard API that works the same way across other similar packages (different mysql drivers, postgres, mongo, couch, etc)?

Is there such a standard for haskell?

Not at the moment. I believe Bryan has at least talked with one other author (of a PostreSQL binding) about perhaps sharing an API in the future. My opinions is that we should wait to consolidate APIs/standardize interfaces until we actually have an idea what a good Haskell API for databases looks like. To know that we need to seem some different ones. Cheers, Johan