Re: [boost] quince: queries in C++ expressions

Subject: Re: [boost] quince: queries in C++ expressions
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-15 20:23:05

On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:04:21 -0700, Michael Shepanski
<mps_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello, boost!
>
> I've released a library called "quince", which lets you use a relational  
> database in C++ rather than SQL.  So it provides an EDSL to wrap the SQL  
> syntax, it converts between C++ types (including user-defined class  
> types) and SQL column types, and it enforces type safety at compile-time.
>
> I wanted to ask whether there would be an interest in this for boost, so  
> I subscribed to this list today, and for the first time I discover  
> Roland Bock's sqlpp11, which does all of those things too.

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Can this library be used with C++03? I recall sqlpp11 being a C++11 only
library with the author explicitly stating that he won't invest effort
into backporting it. So this could possibly be another difference
vis-a-vis sqlpp11.