Am 30.09.2013 um 22:44 schrieb Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com>: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 08:36:33AM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: >> Am 29.09.2013 um 21:20 schrieb Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com>: >> >>> I'd appreciate a summary of how DBI::Test::DSN::Provider differs from >>> Test::Database and/or how they might work together. >> >> I discussed with BooK before hacking DSN::Providers for DBIT. >> >> The primary consensus was: Test::Database is made for testing applications >> against databases used by the application. >> >> The approach of the DBIT::DSN::Providers was to provide driver DSN's and >> attribute variants for the drivers to test. > > I'm not convinced that Test::Database couldn't be extended to suit. > > I'd appreciate specific details of relevant limitations of Test::Database.
If you want I can dig for the IRC logs. BooK (the author) convinced me that it's not usable and neither intended. It could be possible to separate a base API from several implementation like did in Log::Any. We should ask Philippe whether he would support that. Cheers -- Jens Rehsack pkgsrc, Perl5 rehs...@cpan.org
