From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA11706 for caml-redistribution; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:43:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA07471 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:30:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA04231 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:30:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from schneemann.darmstadt.netsurf.de (board-101.darmstadt.netsurf.de [194.163.86.229]) by beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07845 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:30:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by schneemann.darmstadt.netsurf.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06468 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:30:27 +0100 From: Gerd Stolpmann Reply-To: Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Looking for a nail Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:57:27 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.7.9] Content-Type: text/plain References: <199901242301.RAA08815@yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99012523302202.05969@schneemann> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: weis On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Lyn A Headley wrote: >Ocaml could really use some nice database interfaces. Any of >Postgresql, Mysql, or the free sybase or oracle bindings would go a >long way toward making ocaml attractive for free software hackers. I >would also consider a web server and/or some HTML generation >utilities. I am currently working on a db interface that connects to Adabas D, and plan to write another driver for Informix. If somebody else is interested in that we could share code; most commercial DBMS follow the ANSI standard for embedded SQL and because of that it should be very simple to derive drivers for other DBMS. As far as I know, the free DBMS have their own specific interfaces; drivers would have to be totally rewritten. What would be really nice if Miles is interested in that are tools for server-side "scripting", as alternative for Perl and Python. This could mean a good CGI parser, a configurable XML-to-HTML converter, HTTP and FTP tools, and a killer app showing everybody what's going on. Another interesting project would be a Corba interface, as Gnome and KDE want to use Corba. Then Ocaml would be one of the most elegant ways to write desktop applications. Gerd -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerd Stolpmann Telefon: +49 6151 997705 (privat) Viktoriastr. 100 64293 Darmstadt EMail: Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de (privat) Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------------