Re: [Poop-group] ... entering into the fray ...

[Darren D. <darren@DarrenDuncan.net>]

Hello Sam, thank you for your feedback.

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Sam Vilain wrote:
> From the sounds of it, you are making a better DBI.  I look forward to
> being able to include Rosetta as a Tangram::Relational back-end.

Well, in a manner of speaking, that is exactly my intention.  You're
possibly the first person who nailed it.

However, I was sort of keeping this low key for now, since some people may
not take kindly to the thought of my wanting to replace (or supplement) a
defacto standard; you know, "not invented here".  But the more that the
idea is brought up by other people, such as you did, my task becomes
easier.

In fact, when the time is reasonable, I even plan to code Rosetta in C,
with an XS bridge for Perl 5 programs.  And if I am going do do that, then
I may not be able to use DBI at all to implement it, unless DBI was made
to be called from C programs.  You can see why I don't want to expose my
internals.  Of course, in the short term I am trying to reuse whatever
Perl/C code already exists and is proven, including DBI.

> It certainly would be good if Rosetta would convert any RDBMS dates to
> ISO-8601 (Date::Manip format) along the way, too.  But I bet you
> already thought of that ;-)

Yes, I had already thought of this, although in the short term I would
just pass through any date data I was given, looking more at reformatting
afterwards.  I'm not sure if this is the format you meant, but my
preferred date format has the most significant values on the left, moving
right to less significance, like "2003.05.31.18.10.24".

Have a good day. -- Darren Duncan