making a DBI under Pugs now

Today when I was on #perl6 at irc.freenode.net and, out of the blue 
just following my connect, autrijus asked me if I would port 
DBI::PurePerl and DBD::MySQLPP to Perl 6 such that their presence can 
help with Pugs new object handling abilities.

It would go under /ext/DBI/* presumably.

My research showed that there is already support for sockets in Pugs, 
as seen in several /examples/network items and the Net::IRC module, 
so the necessary foundation to talk with a networked database is in 
place.

This said, I decided that if I was going to do this, I would probably 
take a lot of liberties with the DBI v1 design, and getting it to 
work would probably take time in any event.

I would like to bring up this request with dbi2-dev in case any of 
you would like to participate in this first 
get-something-working-in-Pugs coded version and/or just do it.

If there's no interest then I'll get around to it eventually, but 
several of you are probably better at the low-level network details 
and/or know of things that need to get into it that I haven't thought 
of.

So that you know.

-- Darren Duncan

• making a DBI under Pugs now by Darren Duncan
• Re: making a DBI under Pugs now by Tim Bunce
• Re: making a DBI under Pugs now by Darren Duncan
• Re: making a DBI under Pugs now by Tim Bunce