Re: [dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday

2006-08-08 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Éric, > [copy'n'paste] > One of the problems here is modularity. When you write KDE driver, Ah, this was in no way directed to the KDE driver. Sharing across components is more difficult, admittedly. And the fact that the driver implementation architecture has space for improvements is what st

Re: [dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday

2006-08-08 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 8 Août 2006 15:44, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Not sure we're talking about the same cut'n'paste here :) > > What I mean is large chunks of codes which do exactly the same thing > (including having the same bugs) in different locations. Code which > could be ou

Re: [dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday

2006-08-08 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Éric, > Well, what's the point of reusability if you can not simply assemble (or > derive) classes by an operation as simple as a cut or past. Same goes even > for old procedural programming. If you have to study the code of all the > stuff you assemble / derive / call, you can't really all