[dbix-connect-general] Re: [dbix-connect] related modules --- I made it to LA!

[Terrence B. <met...@ur...>]

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 03:36 PM, Martin Jackson wrote:

> Glad you made it OK.  I hope your trip was to your liking.

I went to the Chicago Zoo... those primates are really something. You 
should see the monkeys swinging through the trees with effortless 
grace --- one slip and they would fall to their death. They even spin 
around while looping their tail around the tree.

>
> Interesting concept, these modules.  Reworking DBIx::Connect to be
> object-oriented has some really nice advantages for keeping state
> between invocations, and especially if DBIx::Connect has DBI::db in its
> @ISA.

Hmmm..

>
> However, all caching schemes have some inherent limitations.  I see the
> primary usage scenario for DBIx::Connect as being for maintenance
> scripts and large application configs.  DBIx::Connect as currently
> implemented doesn't add any value to DBI; I suppose we could add some
> methods like DSN, user, password, and Attributes, but what I really
> don't want is some linkage to DBI and knowing too much about what sorts
> of parameters go into a connection.

No, DBIx::Connect, like any other Perl module, should not be too forward 
thinking. If it is doing what you need adequately then there is no need 
to be paranoid and try to predict what might be nice. Just follow the 
ol' "if it aint broke don't fix it" philosophy.


>
> I am interested in what you're thinking of doing.  Do you have a solid
> enough plan to implement at this time?

No, I have no need for any extensions to DBIx::Connect. I will follow 
that first virtue of a Perl programmer, Laziness, and only patch 
DBIx::Connect when it is 100% clear that something is necessary and 
useful and not already available in something else on CPAN.

But I do want to get this baby in and out of a few checkins/checkouts on 
sourceforge just for practice.

>
> Terrence Brannon wrote:
>>
>> [11.] ResourcePool - A connection caching and pooling class.
>> Uploaded: Jan 02, 2003
>> CPAN id: M/MW/MWS (Markus Winand)
>>
>> _http://search.cpan.org/search?author=MWS_
>> Package: ResourcePool-1.0000.tar.gz
>>
>> _http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ResourcePool-1.0000_
>>
>>
>> [12.] ResourcePool-Resource-DBI - A ResourcePool
>> Uploaded: Jan 02, 2003
>> CPAN id: M/MW/MWS (Markus Winand)
>>
>> _http://search.cpan.org/search?author=MWS_
>> Package: ResourcePool-Resource-DBI-1.0000.tar.gz
>>
>> _http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ResourcePool-Resource-DBI-1.0000_
>>
>>
>> [13.] ResourcePool-Resource-Net-LDAP - A ResourcePool
>> Uploaded: Jan 02, 2003
>>
>> CPAN id: M/MW/MWS (Markus Winand)
>>
>> _http://search.cpan.org/search?author=MWS_
>> Package: ResourcePool-Resource-Net-LDAP-1.0000.tar.gz
>> _
>> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ResourcePool-Resource-Net-
>> LDAP-1.0000_
>
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