[Catalyst] Choosing the right ORM

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:43:08AM -0500, John Siracusa wrote:
> I also think it'd be interesting to create a set of Model::* classes that
> share the same API.  Right now, they sort of do, thanks to the Class::DBI
> compatibility mode of DBIx::Class.  But that just covers two (well, three
> with CDBI::Sweet) modules, and the CDBI API is not a very feature-rich
> common denominator.

Agreed.
 
> Ideally, ORMs should be interchangeable without requiring any app code
> changes, and without sacrificing any features.  What we need is a sort of
> meta-ORM layer with ORM-specific "driver" layers.  Gack, it never ends... ;)

Draft up an RFC; if we can provide this usefully I'd be more than happy to
put some work into making DBIx::Class support it.

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