SV: SV: Perl 6 modules plan

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Kirrily Robert [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Nope.  Here's my list of things which are top-level namespaces for
> database-related modules:
> 
>         AnyDBM_File
>         BTRIEVE
>         BerkeleyDB
>         AsciiDB
>         DBD
>         DBI
>         DBIx
>         DBM
>         DBZ_File
>         DB_File
>         GDBM_File
>         MLDBM
>         MSSQL
>         Msql
>         Mysql
>         NDBM_File
>         ODBM_File
>         Oraperl
>         Pg
>         Pg95
>         PgSQL
>         SDBM_File
>         SQL
>         Sybase
>         XBase 
> 
> Note how few of them are DBI-related.  I want to get them 
> *all* together. 

You have forgotten:
      Ingperl
      Sybperl
      Sqlperl
         and a host of other perl4-compatibilitymode modules
         (including Oraperl, and I think Msql, Mysql, Pg, Pg95, Sybase).

I hope that we forperl6 can standardise database acces on DBI - most of
the modules you list have a DBD:: modules too.

That leaves a smatering of other modules - mainly different versions
of DBM. Do we still want 10 toplevel namespaces for that?
I feel not. They should (and hope fully can) be collected in a
single toplevel namespace, preferably with a common interface (like
DBI, but for DBM variants).

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