Re: [boost] database library (was Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting)

From: Yuval Ronen (ronen_yuval_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-16 01:28:39

Jeff Garland wrote:
>> The database compiler vendors 
>> will suddenly have to provide with their compiler to satisfy the 
>> standard requirements? Probably not... Compiler vendors won't start 
>> writing databases (except Microsoft, of course :-) ). This means 
>> that this standard interface would be directed to database vendors 
>> rather than compiler vendors. Is this the plan? That database 
>> vendors will start supplying C++ header files and lib files with a 
>> "C++ Compliant" stamp?
> 
> You raise a good point. Virtually all database vendors supply an ODBC
> interface -- so I would expect that this would be the primary basic 'driver
> interface' supplied by companies building standard libraries.  However, I
> would expect the architecture to allow for database or standard library
> vendors to provide high performance native bindings for particular databases.  

So we're standardizing ODBC? The committee would require 
compiler/std-lib vendors to supply a C++ wrapper for ODBC (without 
forbidding supplying additional wrappers with same interface for other 
databases)?