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

From: Steve Hutton (shutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-17 13:50:51

On 2006-04-17, Brock Peabody <brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I just started reading the docs for SOCI, but I don't think my library
> does much that SOCI doesn't.  My library has a very simple iterator
> based interface with no facilities for exchanging data other than simple
> gets.  Once that had been accepted I had planned on releasing a full
> fledged serialization library on top of it, but then I got busy with
> other things...  The serialization part was much more exciting than the
> basic interface.
>
> One issue I remember confronting was string representation.  How would
> SOCI handle that?  I ended up having to make everything a template.

We haven't addresed wide strings/unicode yet.  It's one of the things
on the TODO list, so insights here would be helpful.

> Anyway, if you need a hand with anything in SOCI I'd love to help out.

Thanks!  Maciej will be back from holiday on the 25th...I'd like
to defer major discussions until then, so he can be involved.

We do have project mailing lists on sourceforge:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-devel

Steve