Really? I've never run across a vendor distribution of Perl (on multiple Linuxes and a couple versions of OS X) which doesn't include DBI, so I've always assumed it was part of the Perl core.

This is also a two-edged sword, in that PHP traditionally hasn't had anything equivalent to DBI, only database-specific interfaces. So if you wrote your app for MySQL and wanted to switch to PostgreSQL, you'd basically have to rewrite the whole thing if it was in PHP, while most of the transition in Perl would just be a matter of connecting to a different DBD driver (assuming you stuck with vanilla SQL instead of using lots of queries that call non-standard MySQL extensions, of course).

But, yeah, I agree that DBI and DBD::SQLite should be standard if they aren't already.

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