Re: Shared DBI driver test suite

On 2013.01.23 1:07 AM, Jens Rehsack wrote:
>> I'd *love* to see that error fixed so all drivers authors could make use
>> of, and contribute to, a common DBI driver test suite.
>
> You suggest a DBI::Test suite which is a separate module and is required by DBI?
> This completely different to previous statements
> where DBI should have no additional dependencies ...

I don't think having a sharable test suite as an external dependency is a 
problem.  Its like the DBI distribution simply being split in two, but that 
other modules can then depend on just the test suite portion.  In fact, if the 
DBI metadata is appropriately setup, then this external would just be a "test 
requires", and so ones simply wanting to install DBI and which trust it already 
works don't even need to pull the other one.

On a slight tangent, I finally have a mini-sabbatical from work of 4 weeks, 
during which time I hope to complete a working parser, syntax tree, and possibly 
executable of my Muldis D language.  This is relevant to you because I have also 
designed a standardized way to represent arbitrary SQL as a syntax tree, the 
same one as my language, and this could form the basis of a more comprehensive 
cross-DBD test suite.  In a nutshell, this involves taking the basic "rtn(args)" 
format of calls for user-defined SQL routines and using the same format for all 
the SQL built-ins too (eg, IUD and the parts of SELECT), rather than a pile pf 
special syntax, and so analysis or further processing of parsed SQL is a lot 
easier.  If you don't see the benefit, then never mind, and I'll come back to 
you when I have an executable, hopefully soon.

-- Darren Duncan