Jeff Garland wrote:
Nicola Musatti wrote:
Hallo, a few months ago there was a discussion on how a database interface library would be a welcome addition to TR2 and the SOCI developers suggested that SOCI could be a valid candidate for that role (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/140816). They also mentioned their intention to make SOCI ready for submission to Boost.
Was any progress made on this issue? Is there any interest in reopening the discussion on such a library, SOCI submission notwithstanding?
I'm not sure what there is to discuss. It didn't happen :-( And TR2 submission time is over. I still want to see SOCI or the equivalent in Boost, but the authors have to bring it forward.
I'm a member of SOCI dev team for a few months and I can confirm we're seriously considering Boost direction :-) In most of discussions on the soci-devel list, there are some references to Boost policies, guidelines, submission, etc. Just to tell a few secrets, we've changed SOCI building system to follow Boost naming convention of libraries, after 2.2.0 release we're going to create separate branch to put there SOCI boosification, etc. So, I can say we're heading the Boost course.
Last I knew they were waiting to have an ODBC driver first. I didn't see the need for that, but they thought it was essential...
I'm not sure, but this ODBC requirement might be inherited from this summary: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Relational_Da... Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net