developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
module directory has changed (eg. "darwin-2level" vs.
"darwin-thread-multi-2level").
binary packages of perl modules need to be distinguishable between
being built against threaded perl and unthreaded perl, so bump the
PKGREVISION of all perl module packages and introduce
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED for perl as perl>=5.8.5nb5 so the correct
dependencies are registered and the binary packages are distinct.
addresses PR pkg/28619 from H. Todd Fujinaka.
Changes:
0.241:
======
- XBase: codepage option to XBase->create added, suggested by
Chris Greenhill.
0.240:
======
- XBase: delete_record/undelete_record now corrctly returns
false when the delete fails, problem reported by Boris Kocak.
0.234:
======
- Added test to Makefile.PL and note to INSTALL about case
insensitive clash with Xbase.pm, suggested by Michael Higgins
and Jan from AS.
- Added documentation / comments about datetime, suggested
by John Freed.
- Xbase: Added the recompute_lastrecno parameter, suggested by
Kevin J. Rice. Added EOF to create, suggested by Ilya Sandler.
databases.
XBase module provides access to XBase (dBase, Fox*) dbf files. It also
handles memo files (dbt, fpt) and to certain extend index files (ndx, ntx,
mdx, idx and cdx). The DBD::XBase is a database driver for DBI and provides
simple SQL interface to reading and writing the database files. So this
package offers two ways of accessing your beloved data in dbf files: XBase.pm
and DBD::XBase. It is recommend using DBD::XBase and only resort to XBase.pm
if you need something special which is not supported by the DBI interface.
