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James FitzGibbon 2b7b1ae6f8 Massive changes to mSQL and related ports:
- msql-beta is now dead.  Now that v2.0 release is out, it has been folded into ports/databases/msql.
- p5-DBD-mSQL is dead.  It has been rolled into p5-Msql
- The version number of p5-Msql has moved from 1.1702 to 0.91.  This new version numbering scheme is related to the "Msql-modules" distfile on CPAN, whereas the old version numbering scheme was based on the "MsqlPerl" distfile (which is no longer available)
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Msql.pm and DBD::mSQL implement two different approaches to
communicate with an mSQL server. DBD::mSQL is built upon the DBI, the
generic Perl Database Interface. It brings you an identical interface
to a broad variety of databases and is in this regard comparable to
ODBC. The advantage of the DBI approach is portability and
interoperability. Msql.pm is the elder species. It was written before
DBI was available but it was inspired by an early draft of the DBI
specification. As it has been circulating longer it is more mature and
pretty stable. It's also more complete than DBD::mSQL.
Some day in the future DBD::mSQL will probably be the clearly superior
competitor in this package. Today you have to decide on your own about
the trade-offs.