On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:27:01AM -0400, Hicks, Robert wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:23 AM > >To: Tim Bunce; dbi-dev@perl.org > >Cc: Hicks, Robert > >Subject: Re: Announce: New DBI FAQ - please try it out > > > >Tim Bunce wrote: > >> Bob Hicks has helped get this setup and has kindly offered to act as > >> editor and help coordinate contributions. Thanks Bob. > >> > >> Take a look at http://dbi.tiddlyspot.com and let us know what you think. > > > >1. Any chance the driver descriptions can be initially populated > >from CPAN using the NAME one-liner + DESCRIPTION section ? > > Something like (or with NAME/DESC on a different line): > > NAME: DBD::ADO - A DBI driver for Microsoft ADO (Active Data Objects) > > DESCRIPTION: The DBD::ADO module supports ADO access on a Win32 machine. > DBD::ADO is written to support the standard DBI interface to data sources. > > I don't have a problem doing that.
I'd like to keep that page very simple visually. So something like this: [[DBD::Adabas]] - [[description|http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::Adabas]] I scraped the original list from search.cpan.org manually (wget and vi I think). It may be worth writing a simple script to generate the content for that tiddler. Not sure of the simplest way to get the 'description' text. > >2. Perhaps a DBIx section is needed ? > > I do not know if it is Tim's intent on going that deep or to just have the > DBI and DBD on there. I'd be happy to see a [[Related Modules]] tiddler which could list modules in groups by type (alternate api, orm, etc). But only list modules when there's something worth saying about them (unlike the drivers where listing all is best). We need to remember that this is for Frequently Asked Questions so the content should be driven by actual questions people tend to ask. Tim.
