Re: Debian standard SQL server (was Re: Ideas from Usenix)

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> wrote:
> What??? You dare besmirch the name of grep??? Infidel!

Speaking of which, anyone know how to get grep to recognize a
trailing \ as a line continuation character?

> > That said, the perl DBI system gives us a certain level of database
> > independence.
> 
> But only for one language, obviously 8^)

Not necessarily, but yeah, perl would have to be in the system
somewhere.

> > I don't think we should have an sql server for anything we rely on, but
> > I think following the lead of the perl dbi folks would be a good thing
> > to do (and is something which is at least as useful as the picon stuff).
> 
> What is that?  A series of DB independent interfaces for various
> languages?  I think that's kinda beyond the scope of Debian, but think
> it's a good idea, and alot of the work is done already.

Other people have been writing it, and it's already pretty useful. I'm
mostly just talking about us packaging it up (well, except I don't know
if it would be legal for us to distribute stuff like the Oracle support).

> So what is it we're talking about here anyways?

http://www.arcana.co.uk/technologia/perl/DBI/

We've got some of this supported in debian already (no free databases
though, if I recall correctly).

-- 
Raul


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