Re: [boost] Endorsement, review manager sought for Boost.Mysql

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 15:14, Ruben Perez via Boost wrote:

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 03:32, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:

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On 3/9/2021 5:04 PM, Ruben Perez via Boost wrote:

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I would like to propose a MySQL client library for Boost (under the original name of Boost.Mysql). It is a full implementation of the MySQL client protocol, based on Boost.Asio. It requires C++11.

There is a MySQL++ library at https://tangentsoft.com/mysqlpp/home, which I have used in the past and found useful. How does your API compared to that library ?

- The scope of the two libraries are inherently different. mysql++ is a C++ wrapper around libmysqlclient, and provides things like query building and connection pools. Boost.Mysql is an implementation of the MySQL client protocol, and thus provides an API to use that protocol. Boost.Mysql is a level of abstraction below mysql++ - it is at libmysqlclient level.

That makes me happy to endorse your library. Having witnessed failure of Boost efforts towards std::rdb a decade+ ago, having maintained at least two wrappers on top of a database client libraries, I'm enthusiastic about the protocol implementation approach and happy to observe the interest here. Unlike a wrapper library, this has a chance to find supporters among the Boost Community members. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net