Re: 3.0.10

On Jun 20, Manuel Lemos wrote: > On 20-Jun-99 17:33:37, you wrote: > >And in case nobody picked up on it, the dbm abstraction layer (and > >what I plan to do with the PDF libs) are in some ways a warmup for > >doing an SQL database abstraction layer. > > Can you tell us more about that SQL abstraction layer that you are > planning? What will support? Just queries, or also creation and changing > tables, transactions, cursorsm etc.? I don't have anything planned. I'm not even signing up to do the abstraction layer. I'm just pointing out that some of the lessons learned on these other tasks can be applied to that task. I think the only part that is really important to have an abstraction for is querying, since that is by far the most common use. I suspect most everything else falls into the "it would be nice but the abstraction layer would never get finished because it is too much of a pain to implement" category. But code speaks loudest. If someone wants more, implement it. Even if it doesn't get used, the time spent writing it is better spent than any time spent discussing an abstraction layer that never happens. Jim