Re: [Poop-group] A successor to Alzabo

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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> I'm starting to work on something which will do the things I like best 
> about Alzabo, which is mostly the ability to generate very complex queries 
> through the use of Perl data structures, rather than string manipulation.
> 
> For now, I'm calling this thing "Q" (for Query), but I'm going to change 
> the name before it goes to CPAN, obviously (I like it, but a 
> single-character top-level namespace seems a bit presumptuous ;)
> 
> The work-in-progress can be seen in my personal SVN repo at 
> https://svn.urth.org/svn/Q/trunk for those who are interested in following 
> along.

Depending on your time table for this, have you considered trying to write 
it in Perl 6?

FYI, considering the new and rapidly improving v6.pm and related CPAN 
infrastructure such as Moose, you can write in Perl 6 now but people can 
use it like its a Perl 5 module, because v6.pm translates it to a Perl 5 
.pm and/or .pmc, and you can already call Perl 5 and Perl 6 code from each 
other, so you can still use the Perl 5 DBI.  And yes, I participate in the 
Pugs+Perl6 project on a semi-daily basis.

(I am confident enough in this that I have already halted my Perl 5 CPAN 
development and any further releases will be written in Perl 6.  This 
includes my Rosetta DBMS project, so it will now only be possible to use 
Rosetta as part of a Perl 6 including stack.  Note that I'm generally not 
making further announcements about my projects until they are actually 
ready to use, rather than perpetuate vaporware, but this brief note to 
Poop-group is an exception since this is a low-volume list and this 
anecdote may help you decide the direction of your own project.)

-- Darren Duncan