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

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> 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