RE: User email list?

Bruce Butterfield wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 21:56, Noel Welsh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm thinking of creating a schematics-users email list
> > and turning off all the Sourceforge stuff (forums,
> > rfe, bug tracker etc.) that we never use and in which
> > user's comments go to quietly die.  This way users
> > will be able to comment in a forum we're actually
> > likely to read and we'll be able to talk to users
> > about proposed new features and the like.  Any
> > objections?
> Sounds good to me. The sourceforge framework always seemed a bit more
> heavy duty than needed for projects such as schematics.

Agreed.

> On a slightly different topic, is anybody interested in restarting the
> db api discussions we were having several months ago? This is still a
> sore spot for many potential users of Scheme and it would be nice to at
> least try to get something other than ODBC or roll-your-own as the
> lingua franca for relational database interaction.

I'm interested in principle, but I'm not sure I'll be able to *do* much.  I
got tired of dealing with db access problems and punted by starting to use
SISC, so that I can use JDBC, not to mention more sophisticated persistence
libraries.  I don't have much desire to implement, or debug, a database
access layer myself.

Anton



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