in reply to perlBB project

>>What benefits are there over Yet another Bulletin Board?

Well, I'm glad you mentioned that. I'd assumed YaBB was yet another PHP / MySQL system. I'll check it out and see what it has to offer. By the way, I don't have anything against SQL databases. I thought it would be a more interesting challenge to make the system self contained.

Steven.

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Re^2: perlBB project
by jZed (Prior) on Jan 17, 2007 at 19:55 UTC
    As davidrw pointed out above the two things "using a db" and "make the system self contained" are not mutually exclusive. SQLite is self-contained in DBD::SQLite and doesn't require any extra installs though it does need to be compiled for the platform of choice. DBD::AnyData and its prereqs are pure-perl so don't require either compliation or installation of a separate db server. Both of those would allow you to distribute a self-contained, working package but also allow the user to opt to connect it to a separate standalone db server if desired.
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