Richard Nuttall wrote:
- support for automatically pulling database DSN information from a
~/.dbi (or similar) file. This is constantly re-invented poorly.
Let's just do a connect by logical application name and let the
SysAdmins sort out which DB that connects to, in a standard
, and demonstrably function against,
the DBD's selected in requirement (2) above.
Once you've implemented the subclass, you'll have empirical proof
of the feasibility, and, more importantly, you'll be able to port
the subclass to DBIv2, without any additional burden on DBI
developers.
Regards,
Dean Arnold
BTW: If you need a list of DBD's meeting said requirement, let me know,
I just pulled one down.
Sure, send it over.
[ ] DBD-ADO-2.94.tar.gz 31-Jan-2005 02:4041k GZIP compressed docume
[ ] DBD-ASAny-1.13.tar.gz 31-Oct-2003 15:0030k GZIP compressed docume
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methods seems to require
a lot of extra heavy lifting).
Still, I'm sure things will liven up once I've put an initial sketch
together...
Tim.
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
