Bug#648702: RFP: libopendbx -- lightweight C library for accessing databases

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name    : opendbx
>   Version         : 1.4.5
>   Upstream Author : Norbert Sendetzky <norbert@linuxnetworks.de>
> * URL             : http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
> * License         : GPL v2 or any later version
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : lightweight C library for accessing databases
>
> OpenDBX is an extremely lightweight but extensible database access
> library written in C. It provides an abstraction layer to all
> supported databases with a single, clean and simple interface that
> leads to an elegant code design automatically.

Whoever picks this up, I'd strongly suggest using something else than
the long description above, as it's misleading. Just look at libdbi:
that too, provides a single and supposedly simple interface for a number
of databases, yet, code using it is... well... "elegant" is not the word
I'd use for it. Cut it after "simple interface", and all is well, to be
honest.

Also, I'm curious in what way OpenDBX is superior to libdbi, and what
the difference is between the two?

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