Re: feature request for SQL::Statement::Structure

Am 10. April 2012 10:40 schrieb Tim Bunce <[email protected]>:
> Hello Jeff.
>
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 06:43:13AM -0700, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>> Like i said, i was mostly curious of the mindset behind this code that go
>> through the hard work of parsing a SQL statement but not providing the
>> ability to alter and reuse that statement.
>
> My answer, for your curiosity, is that no one has needed it enough to put
> in the work required to implement it. It's as simple as that.

Or - what I like to mention - there's missing a European equivalent for
crowd funding.

I always wanted to rewrite SQL::Statement reusing ribasushi's great
SQL::Translator (allows to parse different SQL dialects - and have only
one SQL parser on CPAN to maintain) and simplifying the sql
processing engine using OO techniques, but it took nearly three man
months to update DBD::File and related - it would take much more
time to rework SQL::Statement. This is no quick goal, no low hangin
fruit - so I expect no one will "need it enough". Technicians usually
don't manage so much money, managers don't understand the
benefit.

I expect, more parts of Perl and/or DBI have similar funding problems.

Best regards,
Jens

PS: I deleted Jeff from receiver list because I don't want to repeat
useless discussion.