Re: [boost] SQL: next iteration of sqlpp11

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Roland Bock wrote:

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OK, very, very short recap:

Very nice explanation, thanks.

Looks very good. But then again, it's really what I said: duplicate work. Competition is good, no doubt about it. But it's duplicate effort nonetheless. Yes, but you see, there are literally hundreds of SQL databases out

On 2014-02-05 19:55, Rodrigo Madera wrote: there and also hundreds of C/C++ libraries to talk to them. Those are all big effort. sqlpp11 also is a big effort. But the connector libraries between sqlpp11 and one of those libraries? That is mostly glue code, nothing big really. Thus, to have a few more connector libraries probably is duplicate effort, but is not really a big deal in comparison, IMHO, since the connectors are rather small.

Maybe if SOCI creates it's own expression grammar for SQL queries it would be a faster and more practical solution, since SOCI has been around for quite some time and has solved several issues along the way. And the expression tree for SQL queries is the fastest part of such a library. The eye candy and sugar should be easy to convert to string and use the SOCI engine for it.

Sqlpp11 will still need to reimplement what SOCI has done several years ago.

No. It will not. sqlpp11 will not touch databases, but only glue code...

So I hope both sqlpp11 and SOCI get their work done and offer us such a nice combination. They will inspire each other.

That's the plan, but it will take quite some time, unless someone steps in to help :-) Best regards, Roland