On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:52:20PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2004, at 3:48 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
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> >I know what it does, I'm trying to find real examples that demonstrate
> >why people think it's needed. Nick has provided a good one. Any others?
> >
>
> Suppose someone's creating a GUI app (Perl/Tk, etc.) in which the end
> user fills in the server, port, user, password, and database into a
> screen of some sort. The back-end app will have to know how to
> translate that into a DBI connection string. And it's probably not
> reasonable to make the user understand the details of how to make a DBI
> connection string in this case.
>
This all makes sense to me. But wouldn't it be easier on the users
to have "standards compliant" DBD drivers rather than have yet another DBI
shim? Other than agreeing on a "standard" it seems like this would be the
more useful route in the long run.
Austin
