That's cool. Thank you. Tito/Anyone It would appear that I am working on something similar (though closer to the MYSQL++ model). I am working on a wrapper over ODBC in this vein. I invite again anyone to send me private mail if this discussion gets off topic boost wise. Motivations: 1- We *need* a db layer in boost 2- I *need* to make some modifications in some existing code for a project I am working on- this may or may not be appropriate for boost- i.e. if I can do this and also somehow help a boost db along- then great

On Behalf Of Maciej Sobczak Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:51 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Library Proposal: database (boost::db) Hi,

Brian Braatz wrote:

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At the end of the day- I believe that a balance between "recordset"-ish model of MYSQL++ and the power of OTL would be a good combination.

A library is not useful if it is too hard to get up to speed on OR too terribly different from what people are used to.

Just to stirr up a little bit:

http://www.msobczak.com/prog/soci/

This library aims at simple usage patterns, where intuitive and almost "embedded" syntax at at premium. A very different approach from those you discuss, but in fact complementary and can be merged with other approaches.

(the code is to be modified a little bit, but what is available at the moment works fine with Visual C++ 7.1 and g++ 3.2)

-- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/