Maciej Sobczak wrote:
Hi,
It's already a matter of "tradition" that all database discussions here have something to do with SOCI. ;-)
As is tradition, I'll chime in ;-)
To confirm this "tradition", I would like to announce that the new version (2.2.0) of the SOCI library is available for download:
Hooray (dances around room)!
This new version provides:
...snip good stuff...
I would like to stress that the ODBC support was our important milestone that now allows us to claim a quite extensive coverage of existing database technologies. With this in mind, SOCI becomes even more serious and our roadmap for the nearest future is to bring the library to the state that will make it a valid candidate for inclusion into Boost. We will therefore welcome your guidance and suggestions w.r.t. Boost compliance.
It seems to me that there are a few basic things that need to be done: - have a formal review - convert to boost build - refactor src tree to be boost-like (boost tree, finer grained headers/cpp files) - write some tests (maybe I'm just missing them in the distro)? - full reference docs not necessarily in that order. Personally I tend toward having the review sooner. SOCI's interface as been mostly stable for awhile...although it looks like there's a few twists in this release. The review may uncover other issues that need to be resolved. Or if the library were not accepted it would be quite painful to do a bunch of work to boostify and then decide to just stay independent. Note that I expect the review for SOCI to be tough because it's a fairly large and complex domain/lib. So we ought to ask the review manager for a longer review right up front.
Note that up to this release, the library was deliberately developed without any external dependencies, so there are obviously wide areas where Boost might be applied within the library itself (example: intrusive pointers to manage some refcounted objects). This is easy.
And not critically important for review or acceptance.
The more difficult part is the library interface and its general philosophy.
Not sure I understand the problem here... Jeff