SQLite Bindings

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Mar 13 16:07:43 PDT 2011


On Sunday 13 March 2011 14:56:34 Jonas Drewsen wrote:
> On 13/03/11 18.29, dsimcha wrote:
> > One of the features I miss most in Phobos is support for SQLite. Several
> > people have written bindings and wrappers and haven't gotten much
> > attention. (For example: https://github.com/bayun/SQLite3-D ).
> > 
> > IMHO, we should do the following:
> > 
> > 1. Put SQLite bindings and the C code (which is public domain) in etc.c,
> > just like zlib now. Put it in the docs, etc. to make sure people know
> > it's there. This will lower the barrier to entry for people who want to
> > make wrappers. These can probably be included without any review, since
> > they're a pile of well-tested C code and a fairly mechanical translation
> > of a header file.
> > 
> > 2. Encourage people to make wrappers **after** the C code and bindings
> > are already "just there", ready to be used. With the barrier to entry
> > lowered, we might actually get someone who's serious enough about it to
> > take it through the whole review process, etc., rather than just dumping
> > a quick n' dirty post to the forum and then forgetting about it.
> 
> It's a great idea. But I think there need to be some kind of janitor for
> the 'etc' modules so that it does not end up as a new dsource collection
> of many unmaintained, some dead and a few live projects.
> 
> Btw. are there any kind of automated nightly builds of dmd/phobos to
> handle regressions?

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- Jonathan M Davis


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