On 2006-10-05, Nicola Musatti <Nicola.Musatti@gmail.com> 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