On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:53:02 +0000, Jens Rehsack <rehs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi developers, > > during refactoring of DBD::File and new wishes (e.g. SQL_IDENTIFIER_CASE > from Martin Evans, getinfo() support, ...) and my own try of a pure-perl > DBD for system tables (DBD::Sys) I see many common code. > > I would like to extract the common code into a base class DBD - maybe > named DBD::SQLPerl (placed SQL in from for private methods and attributes > naming - the should have the prefix "sql_"). > > I know at least two additional DBD's which could benefit from that: > - DBD::Google from Darren Chamberlain (I don't know if he is subscribed > to dbi-dev@perl.org) > - DBD::Sys from me > > If there are more, it would be great to know about them. I do have no objections to refactoring common code into a new module. I've got no opinion (yet) for the name(space) of that module. What I would like to see though, before we end up in quicksand, is to first `finish' the f_meta work, so DBI would at least be releasable again. Call me conservative, but that would make me happy. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
