Hi all. As pointed out to me, Tangram and Class::Tangram are incredibly ineptly named. It seems that OO persistence systems have this in common - consider Pixie, Alzabo, SPOPS, etc. This is probably because the good namespaces like Object::Persistence, Persistence::DBI, etc were already taken.

I'm thinking of a major refactoring, and a new name would be a good start. Any suggestions for a good new name?

If you don't know what it is, I suggest starting with the Project Home page, or perhaps the tangram guided tour, supplemented with a quick look at the incomplete tangram introduction.

Tangram is a stable tool for mapping objects to database tables, or vice versa at a pinch with various provisos. It is much more expressive than simpler approaches like Class::DBI, and supports a very wide style of database programming styles with exceptionally good support for maintaining transaction consistency.

It is currently ported and well tested on Pg, MySQL, Oracle and SQLite, and has at times supported various other commercial databases too.

It is the only abstraction I know of that will let you make partial queries as expressions and combine them together arbitrarily, including as many joins as you like. This is very useful for doing things like automatically building queries from search forms.

I'd rather not turn this note into a debate of the claims I have just made, I'd much rather those be aired on the T2 users mailing list, or perhaps more appropriately the poop-group list. 

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