On 2010-03-16 17:14:32 -0500, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote:
> I am about to ask someone to install DBI and DBD-SQLite on a platform.
> 
> I noticed there are a number of related repos on CPAN:  DBD-SQLite,
> DBD-SQLite2, DBD-SQLite-Amalgamation.
> 
> Is DBD-SQLite the right one to get?

Yes.


> Also, the DBD-SQLite package has a funny description:  "Self-contained
> RDBMS in a DBI Driver".  This doesn't mean that DBD-SQLite re-implements
> all of SQLite, does it?

No. It doesn't reimplement it, it just bundles it.

> Or does it just mean that it is the Driver for
> the "Self-contained RDBMS" of SQLite?

No. The drivers includes an SQLite version and will ignore any other
version which may already be installed on the system.

        hp

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