[R-sig-DB] Re: name of DBI package

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Duncan Temple Lang writes:

>> 
>> I had raised this with Tim.  One could argue for `SDBI' a la Omegahat
>> but I do not think the `S' is necessary.
>> 
>> I will wait with moving up the packages until the naming has been
>> deciced.

> Given the connection between R and Perl, Python & Java, it is entirely
> possible that we will implement a version of the `DBI' interface using
> Perl DBI, Python DBI or JDBC. (Saikat, David and I did this using Java
> for the RSDBI interface.)  In that case, the ambiguity of talking
> about DBI in the S and Perl worlds may warrant having an S prefixing
> the package name.  In other words, we do want to think globally and
> not assume that we are working entirely in the S world.

Hmm.  Good point.  My reading of David et al's DBI proposal is that of
an abstract interface with drivers for the various RDBMs, which would
give the `native' S DBI.  Of course, as we can access Perl and friends
there could be more DBIs available to S users.  Hence, we should perhaps
go for `SDBI' or `SDBC' ...

-k