Re: SQL on CMUCL/SBCL and Debian

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 [email protected] wrote:

> Excellent news!
> Is your code online somewhere? I can offer testing with SBCL on Intel and
> PPC with PostgreSQL and MySQL (well, someday i'll try sbcl on my alpha ....)

I'm glad to hear there's some interest in this! I've not put the code
online yet since, as I mentioned, its not quite there yet. I've still got
some work to do on cleanly separating the front and back ends. I'm also
steadily plodding through the CommonSQL reference checking compatibility.
I'll get the code out somewhere once I've done that and post a message
here. Thanks for the offer of testing -- that will be much appreciated.

The other thing I'm a bit worried about is the dependency on ODCL which is
presumably also not being maintained. As far as I can tell USQL only
depends (substantially) on one file in ODCL (transactions.lisp). The
problem is that this depends on four others, which each depend on ...

> > Its mostly working but I've only tested so far on cmucl-18e and
> > postgresql. When its in a slightly better state of repair I was thinking
> > of getting in touch with Kevin Rosenberg about the possibility of
> > integrating it into CLSQL (it seems to me that there are enough free
> > Common Lisp SQL interfaces offering similar functionality already without
> > adding or maintaining another).
>
> Yes, that seems like a wise choice.

I tend towards this way although I can also see Edi Weitz' point of view.
I guess this is a topic for further discussion.

Cheers,
Marcus