Jeremy Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 08/30/2001:
> Some of you may recall my "DBIx:: namespace?" post from several
> weeks back. Now that I'm convinced that the module we're ("we"
> being "Yahoo!") looking to release belongs there, I need a
> name for it. And I'm not too good at coming up with names, so
> I'll describe sort of what it does and see if anyone is
> inspired (or at least more inspired than I am).
>
> This module is or does the following:
This sounds more like an entire application, rather than just a
module. How extensible are each of these features, for example
the emailing and paging?
> * It is currently MySQL-specific, but may not be. There was a bit
> of discussion about Oracle support.
>
> * Gives you very short, intuitive names that wrap existing DBI
> functionality. $db->Hashes($sql) will give you a list of
> hashrefs, for example.
These two, in my mind, are (should be?) closely coupled, and if
you head in this direction, you start building a framework,
not just a module.
If each piece of functionality that you mention is extensible,
and replacable with custom components, I would recommend the name
DBIx::Toolkit. Or DBIx::KitchenSink. ;)
> My goal is to clean the code up enough so <plug>that I can
> release it in time for my presentation at the Open Source
> Database Summit.</plug>
Cool...
(darren)
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