Re: SV: SV: Perl 6 modules plan

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:21:19PM +0200, Henrik Tougaard wrote:
> 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.

Those are, for the most part, all deprecated in favor of their DBD::
versions.  So DBI drivers are already standardized.  Not much you can
do about the old modules.

Ya know... the CPAN shell has the ability to combine several
repositories together (via CPAN::Site).  Since we can't ever get rid
of the old, deprecated versions/names of modules (ie. oraperl vs
DBD::Oracle), we *could* put them into a different repository.

Perhaps CPAN/ for the good stuff, CPAN/deprecated/ for the old stuff.
The CPAN shell would look in both for modules (so "install oraperl"
would still work) but it could flag them as deprecated (perhaps in the
i/ora/ list).  People who look for things manually on CPAN will be
shielded from mistakenly grabbing a deprecated module (since they'd
have to deliberately dig into the deprecated/ directory).


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