On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:39:28PM +0200, Mark Lawrence wrote: > This is the first formal release announcement of SQL::DB, yet another > Perl/SQL interface. Version 0.04 of this distribution has just been > uploaded to CPAN (should be there in an hour). > > http://search.cpan.org/~mlawren/SQL-DB-0.04/ > > SQL::DB is in development and this early announcement is to obtain > feedback on the design and/or usefulness.
What justification is there for re-inventing SQL::Abstract and SQL::Translator rather than sending patches? I like the interface but I don't see the advantage of re-inventing all the underlying code when there's already good prior art - and when the rest of the perl ORM/etc. community is finally moving towards standardising on these two and maintaining them together. How do you handle cases where you don't know the column list and need to just do a SELECT '*' or similar? -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director Want a managed development or deployment platform? Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Contact mst (at) shadowcatsystems.co.uk for a quote http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/[EMAIL PROTECTED]