Hi, I'm looking at alternatives for light-weight database/record indexing packages for use with Perl on Win32 and I wonder if someone could get me started in the right direction.
Based on initial reading it looks like this is the situation (please correct me if I'm wrong) - SDBM (SDBM_File) comes with Perl in entirity, everything you need, but the key+record size is limited to 1008 bytes max. - Berkeley DB (DB_File): Perl includes the interface but not the functionality. Berkeley DB for Win32 can be downloaded separately, and is free for non-commercial but paid for commercial use. - NDBM (NDBM_File): Perl interface but not functionality can be downloaded from CPAN. Win32 users are basically out of luck on this one (???? true ????) - ODBM is mentioned in the documentation but does not appear to differ significantly from these other alternatives. - GDBM (GDBM_File): Perl interface but not functionality. Libraries for Win32 can be downloaded from the SourceForge GnuWin32 project. Not clear whether the linkage from Perl code to GDBM libraries is complete. GDBM is to me the most attractive of these alternatives. Has anyone used GDBM with Perl and Win32 and, if so, can you describe what you had to do to make it work? I'm guessing that if I could just tell Perl how to find the DLL it would work out just fine ... Thanks very much in advance. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
