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Gee, I'd just use Alzabo and be done with it. No re-implementation of a OO-RDBMS wrapper required.

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Re: Re: Global objects and GC
by oyasuminasai (Initiate) on Mar 05, 2004 at 07:53 UTC
    Thanks for the tip, I took a look at it, but one of the primary goals was to keep the library lightweight and targetted towards the enterprise's concerns. Alzabo looks very complete, but also very large not centered on this company's uses for it.

    By your reasoning it sounds as though you wouldn't agree to people writing and XML parser when there is already XML::Xerces and the like. Sometimes you need something designed in tandem with your specific problems in mind. But I don't want to sound ungrateful, I appreciate the tip.

    oyasuminasai
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      Speaking as a user of Xerces (in Java) and now a handful of other parsers on perl, in general this stuff is best to hand off to someone else unless you're willing to go and produce a complete implementation. Eventually you look at long-term maintenance or feature creep and eventually you just end up reimplementing one of the already complete packages.

      To make a generalization anyway.

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