andrewcoppin: > Jason Dusek wrote: > >Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>What I *haven't* done yet is read the chapters where they try > >>to claim that database programming is possible in Haskell. > >>I'll have to do that at some point. Maybe this is where they > >>reveal the Secret Formula that makes this stuff actually work > >>properly... but somehow I doubt it. > >> > > > > Well, it's certainly possible to interact with a SQL database. > > You have had some kind of trouble, or you have a higher notion > > of "database programming"? > > > > Yeah: None of the packages on Hackage will compile successfully. :-P > > It seems to be an unwritten law that any package involving non-Haskell > components doesn't work on Windoze. > > (Hack, wxHaskell even comes with a special pre-build Windows binary... > and it *still* doesn't work!)
Very curious. Did you file a bug report with the maintainers of the 30+ database packages on hackage? Or did you not have the underlying database drivers installed? Did you make any attempt to contact the authors to determine the cause of your problem? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
