Duplicating work and CPAN

[lachoy]

Don't get me wrong -- I think you should submit this to CPAN. The module is well-written, documented and serves a specific purpose. IMO competition is good, and one of the unfortunate things about CPAN modules is that many of them are heavily upgraded for ~6 months and then abandoned. If you maintain your module for the long-haul, keeping up with upgrades to the DBI, then you'll be a step ahead in my book.

That said, I think the comparisons you draw with the other modules are distinctions without differences. They do much the same tasks but just in different ways. Some ways might fit the way a developer approaches a problem, some might not. None of these modules fit your approach enough to contribute to it rather than develop your own. No problem.

Fortunately, there's not an all-powerful gatekeeper to CPAN who gives the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to a module. IMO this is one of the features of Perl that makes it organically vital. The fact that there are so many DBI wrappers (and templating modules) means this is a problem everyone tackles, and problems like this are often too generic to have one solution. This might annoy or turn away developers from other languages, particularly ones that have been handed down from the mount (Java), but so what?

Keep up the great work!

Chris
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