Ddb needs a maintainer

Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 13 04:57:50 PST 2016


Am 13.02.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Eugene Wissner:
> On Saturday, 13 February 2016 at 05:02:07 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>> Ddb is a relational database client for D [1]. Currently it only
>> supports PostgreSQL but is not limited to it. It could be extended to
>> support other backends.
>>
>> Built-in postgres client is a native implementation, that is it does
>> not depend on libpq. Instead it communicates directly with the server
>> avoiding text serialization and parsing overhead (PostgreSQL protocol
>> is stable and well documented).
>>
>> I don't use it and I don't work on it anymore. Simply because I'm busy
>> with other things and that things don't involve any RDBMS support.
>>
>> It has some user base, few contributors and 22 forks on github.
>> Unfortunately, I could not handle pull requests and issues in a
>> reasonable time and that's why I'm posting this here. I hope someone
>> could take over this project and improve it.
>>
>> If you are interested, please either respond here or email me.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/pszturmaj/ddb
>
> Hey. I'm interested. I'm a web developer and PostgreSQL is my database
> of choice. I also like the idea of a native implementation.
> The only problem is that I'm currently a beginner in D programming (but
> not a beginner in PostgreSQL).
> But since I'll need some kind of D <-> PostgreSQL bindings for my new
> project, I would be glad if I could help.

BTW, I'd recommend to start a new organization on GitHub for this, which 
makes it much easier to manage ownership changes later on, if necessary. 
It also gives the main repository a more official appearance.


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