[R-sig-DB] Re: name of DBI package
David James
dj @end|ng |rom re@e@rch@be||-|@b@@com
Thu Oct 18 16:05:40 CEST 2001
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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