From: "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.ball@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T04:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Witch Oracle library should I use

> I know the DBI has been handed off at least once.  My 
> understanding was also that the current maintainers aren't 
> too interested in resurrecting it.  I agree that it works, 
> but I'm not so sure not abandonware.  I know there are some 
> very old bugs in it still not fixed, though they are minor issues.
> 
> Sequel is looking like a pretty promising library to replace 
> the DBI, but it doesn't yet support Oracle:
> 
> http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

Sequel seems to be more oriented towards ORM, competing with
ActiveRecord. Isn't there still a need for an abstract database
interaction layer underneath it, along the lines of JDBC for Java? I'd
naively thought that everyone was using DBI for that. What substantive
problems with DBI lead sequel, ActiveRecord, etc. to write their own
database-specific connection drivers?

- donald