On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:12 AM <xxxxxx@ancell-ent.com> wrote:

I'm more than a bit hesitant to declare that my entirely theoretical
API will become official.  And I doubt John would be willing to wait for
perhaps a year for it to possibly become a real thing and even an SRFI,
while the Scheme community needs yesterday a persistence facility ably
supplied by the zero-admin dynamically typed SQLite.

I'm not fussed about that .  There are already implementation-specific libraries.

Let's focus on getting the client API and the subprocess protocol right.  Then a Scheme library that talks to a subprocess (hopefully using S-expressions or ASN.1 rather than a bespoke serialization) that speaks the SQLite API will be both portable and usable, and will get the SRFI finalized.  A second implementation will be a Good Thing for standardization, and of course many more can follow. 


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        xxxxxx@ccil.org
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