Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
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> 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.
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