On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > On the other hand, I don't really think that my distribution should be > > branded; despite anything I may have written, what I am doing is meant to > > be a generic way of talking to databases without knowing any SQL, so > > applications are portable, but do this more completely than existing > > abstraction solutions do. It is not meant to be anything huge and > > complicated like an OORDBMS emulation on top of a non-object RDBMS. > > Post some representative examples. (Your description was light on detail.) > > Tim.
The first release of my distribution was posted to CPAN on Sunday night, just prior to sending my original message to the modules list (as was strongly recommended). All of the documentation that I have written to date is in the POD for the DBIx::Portable module. It can be seen at "http://search.cpan.org/author/DUNCAND/DBIx-Portable-0.01/Portable.pm";. I admit that the documentation has large gaps in it, but you should be able to get a lot more information from that than just what is in the "Description" that I reprinted, including some representative examples. This is also a documentation-only release, so I wasn't going to implement until I had a design that was thought out; you can't run it yet. I was pushing myself for a Jan 5th (end of my winter vacation) first upload no matter the progress, which would explain the gaps, as well as the "c/pre-alpha" development status. My next few releases, both due before the end of January, should see the completion of the main documentation and example code. I may have a basic implementation by then as well (enough to make the examples work). Suffice it to say that there will be significant but not paradigm-shifting changes in the mean-time. If the current POD doesn't provide enough information then I will re-apply for registering the module later, when there is more. Until registration is complete, I will continue to make uploads as DBIx-Portable, as a temprary name, so to avoid adding more clutter (temporary names) on CPAN. Thank you. -- Darren Duncan
