Re: [Proxool-developer] Driver specific interfaces

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>It's a golfing reference :) It means "what you would expect".
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Oooh. Moving up the social hierachy of metaphores are we ;)

>>It means that the cast might work when you are using one version of
>>the Oracle driver, and then break when you change driver version, wich
>>will be extremely confusing to the user.
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>Is it true that later versions use interfaces and earlier versions
>don't? If so, then I think it is fine. 
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Probably.

>>It's flabby (something that might work with a particular driver
>>version from a few of the vendors). I don't like flabby, but I won't
>>veto this either.
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>I prefer to think of the drivers as flabby :) I think they should write
>their APIs to interfaces.
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Aiight!

I'm convinced...  But please do not focus on this as a *grand* new 
feature when we release. Its a good idea I agree, but vendor flabbiness 
will lead to a lot of dissapointed and confused users. Agreed?

CHR