[R-sig-DB] Re: name of DBI package
Kurt Hornik
Kurt@Horn|k @end|ng |rom c|@tuw|en@@c@@t
Sun Oct 14 13:03:42 CEST 2001
>>>>> Kurt Hornik writes:
>>>>> 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' ...
Have we agreed on a name thus far?
-k
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