Niels Nes wrote (2005-07-16 14:57):
I guess we never told you that we all agree this is a very good idea. We have similar plans with the jdbc and php/pear-db interfaces. So go ahead.
O.k., FYI, I registered the 'monetdb_' prefix within DBI: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/dbi/2005-08/msg00102.html As soon as Tim commits this patch, you'll see it here: http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/modules/dbi/trunk/DBI.pm?view=log Further on, I proposed DBD::monetdb for inclusion in the Module List http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/2005-08/msg00695.html Usually, this takes time. (Somebody of the module list maintainers has to acknowledge the proposal.) Certainly, DBI users expect to find a DBI driver on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Database_Interfaces/DBD Do you have any objections that I upload snapshots of DBD::monetdb to CPAN? Such a package will be generated as follows: cd MonetDB/src/mapi/clients/perl/DBD Makefile.PL make dist I'm aware that currently, with its MapiLib dependency, the package isn't very useful on its own - the user needs a MonetDB client anyway. That's not nice, but nothing out of the ordinary (and it may be changed). Steffen