Re: making a DBI under Pugs now

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:28:00PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Today when I was on #perl6 at irc.freenode.net and, out of the blue 
> just following my connect, autrijus asked me if I would port 
> DBI::PurePerl and DBD::MySQLPP to Perl 6 such that their presence can 
> help with Pugs new object handling abilities.

I think that's a bad idea, personally.

I see little good and much harm that could come from doing this.

I want DBI v1 to be a poster child for the ability of Perl 6 to run
Perl 5 extensions - one way or another (either via ponie or an embedded
libperl5.so).

> This said, I decided that if I was going to do this, I would probably 
> take a lot of liberties with the DBI v1 design, and getting it to 
> work would probably take time in any event.

The goal of helping "Pugs new object handling abilities" is not worth
the fragmentation and other problems that would arise.  There are a
multitude of significant OO modules can could be used for this instead.

Tim.
 
p.s. I'm currently waiting to see how runtime role composition looks
like in Class::Trait before deciding to use Class::Trait or Perl6::Roles
for the DBI42 module. I also need to do some (paid) work on automating
the creation of Parrot NCI interfaces to shared libraries - ie for
mysql, oracle etc.

> I would like to bring up this request with dbi2-dev in case any of 
> you would like to participate in this first 
> get-something-working-in-Pugs coded version and/or just do it.
> 
> If there's no interest then I'll get around to it eventually, but 
> several of you are probably better at the low-level network details 
> and/or know of things that need to get into it that I haven't thought 
> of.
> 
> So that you know.