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From: Bill Karwin <
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Subject: Announce: IBPerl, the Perl 5 module for Borland InterBase V4.0
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Date: 6 Aug 1996 12:53:59 GMT
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Announcing the first public release
of IBPerl, the Perl 5 module
for Borland InterBase V4.0
Copyright (c) 1996 by Bill Karwin
What is IBPerl?
IBPerl is an object-oriented class module and extension for
Perl 5. It provides an interface to the InterBase API library,
for programming dynamic SQL applications with Borland's scaleable
RDBMS server. IBPerl is available for free, distributable under
the GNU GPL or the Perl Artistic License.
Why would you want this?
IBPerl provides a Perl-ish programming interface to InterBase.
Any Perl script for which you wish you had a real OLCP database
backend you can now write. CGI scripts for the Web, interactive
applications, automation or systems administration tools that
need database access, anything!
Where can you get IBPerl?
http://www.borland.com/techsupport/interbase/ibperl/
IBPerl will be added to CPAN in the near future.
How do you use IBPerl?
It comes with reference documentation, as a "pod" file (viewable
in HTML at the above web site). The distribution also contains
example scripts.
What else do you need to use IBPerl?
Perl 5.003 or higher, and Borland InterBase V4.0 or higher.
You must have the InterBase product in order to compile and
use IBPerl.
What platforms are supported?
I developed IBPerl on SunOS 4.1.4, and I have tested it on
Solaris 2.5. In the near future I will test on all the major
platforms on which InterBase runs: HP-UX 9.x & 10.0, AIX 4.1,
DG/UX 5.4R3.10, SCO ODT 3.0 and OpenServer 5.0, SGI IRIX, and
Windows NT. Not necessarily in that order. Please do not do
your own porting and distribution. If you do the porting and
testing, please let me know of your changes so I can make them
available in the official IBPerl code.
What is InterBase?
An SQL-92 conformant RDBMS and database application development
product that operates on Windows, Windows NT NetWare, most of
the popular UNIX flavors, and OpenVMS. You may want to read
http://www.borland.com/interbase/ibfact.html for a full description
of this product.
What version is IBPerl?
This is the announcement for Beta release 0.2. IBPerl will undergo
quite a bit of changes in the next couple of months, to add more
functionality, more portability, and better interoperability with
the InterBase API, and the DBI and Interperl standards. I wanted
to make it available as soon as possible, though.
What was that about DBI? Is there a DBD for InterBase?
IBPerl does not currently conform to the DBI interface. My plan is
to make a DBD driver that allows the DBI package to access IBPerl.
I am mailing this announcement broadly to everyone I have noted as
being interested in InterBase and Perl. If you are interested in being
on a mailing list for announcements of future releases of IBPerl,
reply to me and I will put you on the mailing list.
IBPerl is a contributed software package, and neither Bill Karwin nor
Borland International are responsible for damages resulting from its
use or misuse.
--
Bill Karwin -
[email protected]
Senior Technical Support Engineer
InterBase Technical Services - Borland International
