Re: [boost] Boost.SQL, SOCI and beyond

From: Steve Hutton (shutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-05 11:33:24

On 2006-10-05, Nicola Musatti <Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Just to make this clear: I have absolutely nothing against a boostified version
> of SOCI being accepted into Boost and eventually submitted to the Committee for
> inclusion in a future TR or directly into the Standard.
>
> However I am concerned about the suitability of some of the interface choices
> made by the SOCI developers. I started writing my own library because I felt
> that my arguments would carry more weight with a concrete implementation to
> support them, however experimental, and because starting from scratch with Boost
> compliance in mind was simpler than attempting a partial boostification of the
> SOCI code base.

Thanks for doing this - personally I welcome the discussion of these
interface details, and I am open to considering the issues you are
raising.  I've never thought that a boostified version of SOCI would
go through with exactly the interface it has today.  There might be
a scenario in which standalone SOCI lives on alongside its decendent
boost.SQL, with a slightly different interface.  However, we need
to get Maciej's thoughts on these issues when he comes back online.

Steve