Title Page Software Version Description for Text Database API Revision: A Version: 0.02 Date: 2003/06/12 Prepared for: General Public Prepared by: SoftwareDiamonds.com Esupport@SoftwareDiamonds.comE Copyright: copyright © 2003 Software Diamonds Classification: NONE 1.0 SCOPE This paragraph identifies and provides an overview of the released files. 1.1 Indentification This release is a collection of Perl modules that extend the capabilities of the Perl language. 1.2 System overview The system is the Perl programming language software. The system does not have any hardware. The Perl programming language contains two features that are utilized by this release: 1 Program Modules to extend the languages 2 Plain Old Documentation (POD) that may be embedded in the language These features are established by the referenced documents. DataPort accesses different types of data sources in different formats and streams them to a stanadard pure Perl API. The feature data source is the text base FormDB. The FormDB data source has improve flexiability and performance over other text base formats such as the Comma Separated Variable (CSV) format. The DataPort::FileType::FormDB module is an integral part of the US DOD SDT2167A bundle of modules. The data used by Test::STDmaker and ExtUtils::SVDmaker are stored in this format. The dependency of the program modules in the US DOD STD2167A bundle is as follows: Test::TestUtil Test::Tester DataPort::FormDB Test::STDmaker ExtUtils::SVDmaker 1.3 Document overview. This document releases DataPort::FormDB version 0.02 providing description of the inventory, installation instructions and other information necessary to utilize and track this release. 3.0 VERSION DESCRIPTION All file specifications in this SVD use the Unix operating system file specification. 3.1 Inventory of materials released. 3.1.1 Files. This document releases the file found at the following repository: http://www.softwarediamonds/packages/DataPort-FormDB-0.02 http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/S/SO/SOFTDIA/DataPort-FormDB-0.02 3.1.2 Copyright. copyright © 2003 Software Diamonds 3.1.3 Copyright holder contact. 603 882-0846 Esupport@SoftwareDiamonds.comE 3.1.4 License. Software Diamonds permits the redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, provided that the following conditions are met: 1 Redistributions of source code, modified or unmodified must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. SOFTWARE DIAMONDS, http://www.SoftwareDiamonds.com, PROVIDES THIS SOFTWARE 'AS IS' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOFTWARE DIAMONDS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 3.2 Inventory of software contents The content of the released, compressed, archieve file, consists of the following files: file version date comment ------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ---------- ------------------------ lib/Docs/Site_SVD/DataPort_FormDB.pm 0.02 2003/06/12 revised 0.01 MANIFEST 0.02 2003/06/12 generated, replaces 0.01 Makefile.PL 0.02 2003/06/12 generated, replaces 0.01 README 0.02 2003/06/12 generated, replaces 0.01 lib/DataPort/DataFile.pm 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged lib/DataPort/DataFileI.pm 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged lib/DataPort/FileType/FormDB.pm 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile-STD.pm 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile.d 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile.std 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile.t 0.02 2003/06/12 revised 0.01 t/DataPort/DataFile0.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile2.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile2.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile3.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile3.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile4.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile4.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/DataFile5.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDB-STD.pm 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDB.d 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDB.std 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDB.t 0.02 2003/06/12 revised 0.01 t/DataPort/FormDB0.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa2.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa2.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa3.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa3.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa4.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBa4.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBr2.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBr3.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBr4.txt 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged t/DataPort/FormDBs0.tdb 0.01 2003/06/08 unchanged 3.3 Changes At 04:10 AM 6/9/2003 +0000, Josts Smokehouse wrote: Hello, Samson Monaco Tutankhamen! Thanks for uploading your works to CPAN. I noticed that the test suite seem to fail without these modules: STD::Tester As such, adding the prerequisite module(s) to 'PREREQ_PM' in your Makefile.PL should solve this problem. For example: WriteMakefile( AUTHOR => 'Samson Monaco Tutankhamen (support@SoftwareDiamonds.com)', ... # other information PREREQ_PM => { 'STD::Tester' => '0', # or a minimum workable version } ); If you are interested in making a more flexible Makefile.PL that can probe for missing dependencies and install them, ExtUtils::AutoInstall at may be worth a look. Thanks! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CORRECTIVE ACTION: The Makefile.PL is automatically generated by ExtUtils::SVDmaker from the data stored in the DataPort::FileType::FormDB format in the Docs::Site_SVD::DataPort-FormDB module. For now, in Docs::Site_SVD::DataPort-FormDB Changed PREREQ_PM: ^ to PREREQ_PM: 'Test::TestUtil' => 0, 'Test::Tester' => 0, ^ and regenerated the distribution using ExtUtils::SVDmaker Uploaded Test::TestUtil and Test::Tester to CPAN in order to resolve the prerequiste. For a future project, should follow up on Mr. Smokehouse's recommendation and investigate ExtUtils-AutoInstall. Hopefully ExtUtils::SVDmaker can be extended by using ExtUtils::AutoInstall intact. Using the work of others can result in instant feature creep. 3.4 Adaptation data. This installation requires that the installation site has the Perl programming language installed. Installation sites running Microsoft Operating systems require the installation of Unix utilities. An excellent, highly recommended Unix utilities for Microsoft operating systems is unxutils by Karl M. Syring. A copy is available at the following web sites: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net http://packages.SoftwareDiamnds.com There are no other additional requirements or tailoring needed of configurations files, adaptation data or other software needed for this installation particular to any installation site. 3.5 Related documents. There are no related documents needed for the installation and test of this release. 3.6 Installation instructions. To installed the release file, use the CPAN module in the Perl release or the INSTALL.PL script at the following web site: http://packages.SoftwareDiamonds.com Follow the instructions for the the chosen installation software. The distribution file is at the following respositories: http://www.softwarediamonds/packages/DataPort-FormDB-0.02 http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/S/SO/SOFTDIA/DataPort-FormDB-0.02 3.6.1 Installation support. If there are installation problems or questions with the installation contact 603 882-0846 Esupport@SoftwareDiamonds.comE 3.6.2 Installation Tests. Most Perl installation software will run the following test script(s) as part of the installation: t/DataPort/DataFile.t t/DataPort/FormDB.t 3.7 Possible problems and known errors There are no known open issues. 4.0 NOTES The following are useful acronyms: .d extension for a Perl demo script file .pm extension for a Perl Library Module .t extension for a Perl test script file DID Data Item Description POD Plain Old Documentation SVD Software Version Description 2.0 SEE ALSO L L