Daniel Pfeifer <daniel <at> pfeifer-mail.de> writes:
Database access has been discussed quite often in the Boost mailing list. I read through the discussions from Oct 2004 and Jul/Aug 2005 and I am well aware of the fact that there is a lot of disagreement concerning the interface presented to the programmer. So I just hope you don't bite my head off if I propose this as a GSoC project. ;)
Things I would like to implement: * generic binding of parameters and results (using Boost.Fusion) * asynchronous access (using Boost.Asio) * odbc, postgres, firebird, mysql and sqlite3 backends (using their proper C API) * DATE, TIME and DATETIME fields (using Boost.Date_Time or struct tm)
Have you seen my half baked attempt, SqlCli: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/sql_cli Would you consider it as a starting point? I'm not sure I'd qualify as a Boost mentor, nor if I'd be able to put in the required time, but I do believe that a database access library would be a very welcome addition to Boost (and to the C++ standard, by the way). Cheers, Nicola Musatti