Re: SQL on CMUCL/SBCL and Debian

Adam Di Carlo <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:28:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uncommon-sql
Organization onShore Development, Inc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marcus Pearce <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

FYI, if I recollect, it was always our plan to eventually alter usql
to be able to use the CLSQL backends, and then we could remove the
backends from usql altogether.  Of course, nothing is quite that
simple...

> 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
> ...

Well, if someone is able to take it over, that would involve I guess
also taking over ODCL.  You could integrate that package into USQL or
continue to maintain it as a separate utility package -- whatever
makes sense.

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