On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:26:12AM -0500, David B. Held wrote:
The applications are there. But this is a domain in which most of the applications simply use the existing APIs, even if those are not C++- style APIs. Like sockets, threads, and everything else, we use a C API because that's what is available,
This is certainly true for me, I do a lot of development using the mysql C API because it's the native one, and because MySQL++ is hideous, bloated, buggy and only half implemented. But even though I am the maintainer for mysqlcppapi, which fixes most of MySQL++'s glaring problems, where I work we use my own very lightweight wrapper around the MySQL C API. This does little more than automatic resource cleanup in dtors, provide an iterator interface to the query results and use std::string not char* - and that suits the purpose quite well, without adding overhead to the native C API. Unfortunately this wrapper is very closely tied to MySQL's C API, so probably wouldn't work well on top of another DB. Anyone interested can have a look at http://www.kayari.org/mymysql/ It only consists of three header files. jon -- "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." - Humpty Dumpty