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

[David James]

I think either DBI or SDBI is fine, but I'd vote for just Database
Interface (DBI).  Personally I don't see the need of the "S"
in front just because Perl has a Database Independent (DBI) module.
but I'll let others break the tie.

Kurt Hornik wrote:
> >>>>> 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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