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reply "chuck" <none none.com> writes:
My first post. :)

I come from a perl background but currently I am looking into 
transitioning into a compiled language. I am a fan of open 
software and know of the affinity Gnu has towards the C language, 
but would like to learn something that is a bit more like what I 
am used to. I have been working my way through Ali Çehreli's 
tutorial and like the language.

My question is: does Phobos or another standard library have 
intentions to make it easier to connect to a database (either 
Postgresql, etc. or a new D database that someone may be working 
on) and create daemons through D bindings, or will I need to know 
more C in order to use the proper code in extern segments? I am 
aware of independent projects for databases, but several of these 
have came and disappeared over time and I would like something 
with a more stable history. As for daemons, I know that I can 
call an extern C fork command, but is this as pure as D gets in 
this regard?
Jan 05 2014
next sibling parent "Arjan" <arjan ask.me.to> writes:
On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 05:27:38 UTC, chuck wrote:

 My first post. :)


 My question is: does Phobos or another standard library have 
 intentions to make it easier to connect to a database (either 
 Postgresql,


see:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/ddbc

see:
http://vibed.org/docs#db-support
Jan 06 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Rikki Cattermole" <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 05:27:38 UTC, chuck wrote:

 My first post. :)

 I come from a perl background but currently I am looking into 
 transitioning into a compiled language. I am a fan of open 
 software and know of the affinity Gnu has towards the C 
 language, but would like to learn something that is a bit more 
 like what I am used to. I have been working my way through Ali 
 Çehreli's tutorial and like the language.

 My question is: does Phobos or another standard library have 
 intentions to make it easier to connect to a database (either 
 Postgresql, etc. or a new D database that someone may be 
 working on) and create daemons through D bindings, or will I 
 need to know more C in order to use the proper code in extern 
 segments? I am aware of independent projects for databases, but 
 several of these have came and disappeared over time and I 
 would like something with a more stable history. As for 
 daemons, I know that I can call an extern C fork command, but 
 is this as pure as D gets in this regard?


My projects are relatively quite new but they do meet everything 
else.
I have Dvorm[0] which maps classes to database's. Supports 
currently in memory and Mongo (via Vibe).
I do plan to add e.g. Mysql support via OpenDBX which is a c 
library as a provider to it.

I have bindings for OpenDBX[1] which utilises Derelict's shared 
library loader.

At current point in time I don't believe we will be adding 
anything to standard library for this or create another (past 
issues).

There is also others available on code.dlang.org if you haven't 
seen already.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Dvorm
[1] https://github.com/rikkimax/Derelict_Extras---OpenDBX
Jan 06 2014
prev sibling parent "chuck" <none none.com> writes:
Many thanks to both of you. This pretty much answered my 
questions.
Jan 06 2014