Having searched the cpan and googled the globe I am unable to determine a solution. What is up with pureDB? Was it devised to be portable, independant of any linking etc? I would love to find a way to access pureDB files using perl , there is a format description that looks thorough, but scares me, as does fooling about with endian and bytevalues and c and (ok I aspire to maximum perl laziness - at all times, I admit it).

How difficult would it be to make a perl DBD for this database?

Devil's Advocate: sure it might seem cool now, but then you need to be certain you lock the file before writing to it, and be certain that your OS flocking is OK, and worry about races - that surely it would be better to use the mysql or ldap implementations of pureFTPd. Right?

I'm finishing this post whilst I am only in two minds about doing this, maybe the title should have been Real vs JustAnotherWannaDB


I can't believe it's not psellchecked

In reply to Perl bindings for puredb by submersible_toaster

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