Re: SQL on CMUCL/SBCL and Debian

> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:02:33 -0500, Adam Di Carlo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I think it's fair to say it's not really maintained.  The last
> > released version is much different from what the onShoreD developers
> > are working with.  The lastest verision they are working with is
> > geared towards sbcl, btw, I'm not even sure whether CMUCL is still a
> > supported intepreter.
> >
> > In short, it's pretty badly forked as there isn't anyone maintaining
> > the free-software offering, basically.  I maintain the Debian
> > package but I'm trying to find someone to maintain it, since my Lisp
> > is pretty weak and my time is pretty short.
>
> I'd offer to take the current release plus (if you're willing to
> release it) the (SBCL) version you're working with and make it a
> common-lisp.net project. I cannot guarantee that I will have enough
> time and skills to really work on it but it'd be a first
> step. Developers willing to work on improving USQL will certainly also
> get common-lisp.net accounts.

This might be relevant here. I've been working on porting USQL to run on
the CLSQL backends. While I was at it I thought it might be worth updating
USQL to conform to the latest CommonSQL spec (4.3) available at:

http://www.lispworks.com/reference/lw43/LWRM/html/lwref-383.htm#pgfId-887891

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).

Cheers,
Marcus