SQLite Bindings

[Jonas Drewsen]

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?

/Jonas