on 4/30/02 12:58 PM, "Leo Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Costin: >>> I would be much happier with a wider top-level project, where the >>> various db-related technologies could find the expertise and community >>> that is needed ( instead of ending up with 3-4 smaller projects ). > > I completely agree. > >> However, one could say the same thing about those silly web app frameworks. >> :-) > > or logging, or regexp, or... > point being: we've handled this somewhat badly before; this proposal > sounds like an opportunity to do it 'right'. Database abstraction, > persistence, etc...we have like a zillion tools in various projects that > deal with it. Just to be clear, regexp was started to fill a similar gap. At the time, there was no other regexp package that wasn't *GPL and if I hadn't had started regexp, I would have never gotten daniel's attention to get ORO (which is what I had really wanted anyway)... -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
