RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] WWWBoard2 - PLEASE RESPOND

[Wizard <wi...@ne...>]

> While we're at it throwing ideas, how would the speed of XML or
> otherwise formatted single-file parsing compare to something like
> DB_File? As far as I know, DB_File is part of Perl (at least on my
> system) and it would save a lot of parsing work out.

It requires Berkeley DB which I'm not sure is available to all windows
boxen. If you meant DBM files (which I believe is a different animal),
that's part of Perl 5.0 and we could use that. I don't know about the speed
thing, but I could test it.

> We could also use CSV or some other database schema.

If we were going to go with some specific stand-alone Database mechanism, I
think I'd chose to use DBD::XBase for the SQL support (allowing for
conversion to Enterprise DBs), and include the CPAN modules. It works, is
pure perl, and supports a reasonable subset of SQL92(?). I've used it with
NeonDB. I am assuming however that all perl installs would include DBI by
default.
Grant M.