On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > As a general comment on DBI v2; we need to beware of the second-system > effect (Brooks "Mythical Man Month").
Well understood. > In particular, the DBI must not mandate impossible levels of support from > the drivers. Also well understood. > It will benefit you nothing if the DBI is immaculate and > wonderful and incredibly all-singing and all-dancing, but no-one can write a > driver for it because the requirements cannot be met by the actual DBMS that > Perl + DBI needs to work with. One of my key goals is to make writing drivers, for all kinds of data sources, easier than it is now. Tim.
