Esteemed monks,

I am confused. I have been programming in Perl on and off for about 7 years. I am not a programmer by training, but an engineer and mathematician. But now people pay me too much to help with computer problems so I do that instead!

I use DBI regularly, usually with MySQL. Lately I have been reading all the various writeups I see here in the Monastery referring to various wrappers to the DBI interface. They sound great - but I think most of what has been written about them is adversarial - somebody promoting their faviourite wrapper or the one they wrote.

Having read the wonderful offering from gmax on the DBI and the chromatic paper on perl.com I now hunger for more light.

Can any of you point me to an unbiased summary of the pro's and con's of the various wrapper modules? Alternatively I would be eternally grateful if someone would care to put fingers to keyboard and write one.

...john jdtoronto

In reply to DBI and wrappers etc confusion. by jdtoronto

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