On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:15:49PM -0900, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> In the near future I'd like to submit a module for inclusion on CPAN. I need
> some advice on the appropriate namespace, however, since I don't want to
> pollute top-level namespace.
>
> Unofficial module name (as it's being developed): PerlDBM
> Synopsis: Pure-perl implementation of a dbm engine. Supported only on
> platforms with 64-bit filesystems. Database files are
> portable (all data is stored in network-byte order), with
> record-level locking and transactions. Has it's own API for
> low-level control, but also will support tied hashes.
>
> I did notice that most of the XS wrappers for C-based implementations were all
> in top-level namespace, though. Any suggestions/preferences?
Will this be implemented with the DBI interface? Then DBD::YourProject
seems appropriate.
"DBD::SQLite" seems to be a related case, although it's not Pure Perl,
it just allows you install it as a standard DBI driver.
Mark
