Re: Spatialite prefix request

sl_ would work just fine.
(now waiting for the DBI gods to deign to add it)

Loki

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Jonathan Leffler
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 14:02, Loki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The DBD instructions on this are very vague (other then saying send to
>> the mailing list) but I need to get a new DBI private prefix
>> registered for DBD::Spatialite - what are the next steps?
>
> You've started correctly.
>
> Did you have a prefix in mind that is not already in use?  Would 'sl_' be
> appropriate, for example?   You can find the current list of assignments at
> about line 320 in DBI.pm, and 'sl_' appears to be available.  (The longest
> current prefix is 'monetdb_'; if you requested 'spatialite_' as the prefix,
> that would be 3 characters longer than the current longest.)
>
> When the maintainers of DBI agree, they will (presumably) let you know that
> the prefix is OK, and the next release of DBI would record that change.  You
> might even go so far as to provide a patch (against 1.616, or possibly
> against the SVN head version) to simplify their life as much as possible.
>
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