Maciej Sobczak skrev:
Hi,
After more than one year and a half from the last release I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next major SOCI release (3.0.0).
The SOCI library is a C++ database access library that during the last years was recognized for its innovative interface, ease of use and high quality. The main project website is:
The 3.0.0 release brings many improvements and new features. Some of them were suggested here during previous discussions on database interfaces. Some of them will be explained in more detail below.
The most important of the new library features include:
* Naming and coding convention compliant with Boost.
* Integration with Boost types: optional, tuple, fusion and gregorian::date.
Please see <http://soci.sourceforge.net/doc/boost.html> for details.
All the optional examles use 'is_initialized()'. It seems like the non-idiomatic way: if (name.is_initialized()) should be if( name ) IMO.
What is the future of database interfacing from the Boost community point of view?
Proposing SOCI as a candidate library for Boost might be a possible answer to this question, but it is not obvious in a wider perspective. Some of the SOCI users do not use Boost for various reasons and this justifies retaining SOCI as a separate entity (note: even though SOCI offers extensive integration with Boost, it does not mandate it and SOCI can be compiled without any reference to Boost). Most likely solution is to keep SOCI orbiting around Boost in terms of coding conventions and seamless interfacing, as it does today, so that benefits for all interested parties can be retained.
Your comments and suggestions considering the above are very welcome.
I would prefer a submission to boost. Formal reviews tend to provide more and deeper feedback than pre-review comments can give. John Maddock has made the tool "bcp" http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/tools/bcp/bcp.html that allows one to easily make a boost library into an independent project. I think it will be possible to retain low coupling to other boost components.' Nice work! -Thorsten