[GSOC] Database API

[Christian Manning]

On 25/03/2011 18:45, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On 24/03/2011 17:58, Trass3r wrote:
>>>> Has this idea/project been assigned a mentor? I'd like to ask them and
>>>> the list, what's the best thing for me to do right now to prepare for
>>>> this?
>>>
>>> You could also have a look at http://dsource.org/projects/ddbi
>>> This shows some past efforts to create database interfaces.
>>
>> This can be of some inspiration and also brings up a point about how
>> this project would be executed, ie. is this to be part of phobos or a
>> totally separate project? I'm guessing to be Digital Mars supported it's
>> more likely wanted to be a part of phobos, but could someone clarify on
>> this?
>
> What I would expect to be the case would be that it would be implemented with
> the idea that it would ideally be put into Phobos but that it wouldn't
> necessarily make it into Phobos. Any major new functionality that gets added
> to Phobos at this point needs to be reviewed by the folks on this newsgroup
> and get voted in. So, it's possible that a fairly solid solution could be
> created which would not be acceptable in Phobos for one reason or another, at
> which point it would have to either be fixed so that it would be acceptable in
> Phobos or be left as a 3rd party library.
>
> So, ideally stuff like a good database solution for D would make it into
> Phobos, but whether it actually makes it in depends a great deal on the actual
> solution.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Understood.

My last deadline is Monday, so after that I should have much more time 
to concentrate on this to plan out what I'd like to do and submit a 
proper proposal.

Chris