On 18 May 2007, at 21:41, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: [snip] > Since nobody else agreed with Marvin, I'd add my two cents that I do > think it'd be nice if the tutorial jumped "straight to the > meat" (says the vegetarian...). When I started looking at RDBO I at > least subconsciously found it intimidating that "just getting > started" was so much trouble^W reading. > > Or maybe you are right that we just need a separate "quick start" > document. :-) [snip]
I'll third that suggestion for a quick start doc being nice. This might be an artefact of the kind of applications I've been playing with but the vast majority of my time I spend with the kind of code that doesn't come until "Auto-initialization and the convention manager" onwards. In the applications I've been writing I find myself writing very little RDBO related code - because RDBO is just so darn excellent at doing all the work for me. When I first skimmed the tutorial I didn't get that message. A quick start along the lines of "Here's a database schema. Here's RDBO::Loader.. Bish bosh. Job done. Oh yes, when you need some more flexibility, better validation, etc. here's where to look" would be nice. (Please note: This suggestion carries no karmic weight since I do not plan to submit a patch - so feel free to ignore - especially since I've had writing a decent intro to Test::Class on my to do list for... ohh... about five years now :-) Cheers, Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object
