On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:21:35 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that this information should be removed from most programs > altogether. They should just have to specify a logical data source > (possibly including a schema version), then a module with a config file > maps that to a set of connection parameters.
That's what DBI wrappers do, and I have one of those too. But my DBI wrapper reads its connection information for each "logical" data source from a hash. Then there's a build_dsn() method that assembles the pieces according to the name of the driver. If each DBD did that for me, I could just pass a reference to my connection info hash directly to DBI->connect() and then remove the build_dsn() code from my wrapper. -John
