On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:19:58PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kyle Dawkins wrote:
>
> > I've taken a look at many of them (Tangram? a few others) and haven't been
> > impressed with any of them. I think part of the problem is that they're all
> > being developed in a bit of a vacuum. But let's capitalise on the interest
> > that this thread has generated to start a push for something that we can all
> > use. I think even the dudes who embed their SQL in perl could be made to
> > realise the benefits if we all started using a common framework. Thoughts?
>
> Well, people are starting to use my tool, Alzabo (alzabo.sourceforge.net)
> and I'm getting feedback. More feedback about what people want it always
> welcome. FWIW, Alzabo gives you a reasonable amount of control over the
> SQL that is generated, if you need it. It doesn't yet allow optimizer
> hints but that will change in a future version.
>
> OTOH, if you really _need_ to get into the nitty gritty details of SQL its
> hard to imagine that any abstraction layer would ever be satisfactory.
I think DBIx::AnyDBD is a pretty good compromise.
Tim.
