Hello all, I pleased to announce the QDBM and Hyper Estraier bindings for haskell. If you are interested in, they can be obtained from http://www.city5.org/haskellprog/qdbm/ http://www.city5.org/haskellprog/hstraier/ These are darcs repository, so you can obtain them via darcs. These bindings are already cabalized, you have to type only as follows to install them: % runghc ./Setup.hs configure % runghc ./Setup.hs build # runghc ./Setup.hs install the online API documentation generated by haddock is also shown at http://www.city5.org/doc/qdbm/ http://www.city5.org/doc/hstraier/ * What is QDBM? QDBM, stands for Quick DBM, is a database module similar to GDBM or NDBM or Berkeley-DB, but the specific feature is performance and simple API. By now, my QDBM binding supports only Depot, Curia, Villa, and a part of Cabin. QDBM can handle several kinds of DBM, and Depot and Curia and Villa is a name of each DBM. Depot is a basic DBM. Curia is a `large' DBM and bundles many Depot files for its internal implementation. Curia also can store `large objects' as a file. Villa is B+Tree DBM and uses a function to compare keys. Villa also has faculty of cursors and transactions. Vista, `large' version of Villa, is not supported. Odeum, inverted index, is also not supported. Cabin is auxiliary functions collection module and contains a kind of utility functions of string operation such as Base64 encode/decode, URL encode/decode, quoted printable encode/decode, mime analysis, csv reading and so on. These functions will be useful for many Haskellers, and run faster. If you are interested in QDBM itself, see http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/ * What is Hyper Estraier Hyper Estraier is a full-text search system using QDBM. You can search documents according to the keywords specified and so on. My Hyper Estraier binding supports only `core' API. Core API can handle document object, conditionals, and full-text search DB. Hyper Estraier itself has `node' API, which invokes search queries to remote servers using HTTP. Node API is not supported yet in my binding now. If you are interested in Hyper Estraier itself, see http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ Any comments are welcome. Thanks, Jun Mukai mukai@jmuk.org