                              Rosetta
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by Darren Duncan <perl@DarrenDuncan.net>

CONTENTS

* Preface
* Keeping Up To Date
* Dependencies
* Support
* License And Copyright
* Acknowledgements

PREFACE

This distribution features the Perl 5 module named "Rosetta", as well as the
"Rosetta::Validator"; see the files lib/Rosetta.pm and lib/Rosetta/Framework.pod
for the roots of the main documentation, which is in POD format.  The
distribution also includes a ChangeLog file to say what changes already
happened, and a TODO file to say what changes have yet to happen.  The file
INSTALL should help with installation issues.  Read below for how to get support
or keep up to date, know this distribution's dependencies, or read the credits
or copyright and license.

KEEPING UP TO DATE

My module set is constantly under development.  The canonical copies are all
linked to through my website, "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/", on the page called
"Perl Libraries I Made" (name subject to change).

For those of you that are interested in the bleeding edge, I now have a public
Subversion repository at "http://svn.utsl.gen.nz/trunk/Rosetta/"; this
repository contains all of my newer modules (whose problem domain is databases),
but not my older modules (which are not about databases).

You can download slightly older but more stable versions of all of my modules in
standard tarred and gzipped distributions, either from the public CPAN archives,
"http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or from my own web server,
"http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl/".

CPAN also extracts the POD from modules and maintains that documentation in an
organized and searchable fashion.  Their main search site is
"http://search.cpan.org/", and my own DUNCAND author page is
"http://search.cpan.org/~duncand/"; distributions are also there.

You can download my oldest distributions from BACKPAN, at
"http://history.perl.org/backpan/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or from my web
server, at "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl/archives/".

DEPENDENCIES

This distribution requires any version of Perl 5.x.y that is at least 5.8.1.

It also requires the Perl modules 'version' and 'only', which would
conceptually be built-in to Perl, but aren't, so they are on CPAN instead.

It also requires the Perl module Scalar::Util, 
which would conceptually be built-in to Perl, but is bundled with it instead.

It also requires these modules that are on CPAN:

    Locale::KeyedText 1.6.0 (for error messages)
    SQL::Routine 0.70.0

This distribution also requires Test::More for its test suite, and that module
is bundled with Perl.

SUPPORT

Currently I don't have any support arranged with other people, lists, newsgroups,
or otherwise.  Feel free to ask me if you can't figure things out on your own, or
another person whom you know has used this.  I may start a mailing list for 
support issues later, so that users of my modules can help each other with them.

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This file is part of the Rosetta database portability library.

Rosetta is Copyright (c) 2002-2005, Darren R. Duncan.  All rights reserved.
Address comments, suggestions, and bug reports to perl@DarrenDuncan.net, or
visit http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/ for more information.

Rosetta is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/); either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.  You should have received a copy of the GPL as part
of the Rosetta distribution, in the file named "GPL"; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301,
USA.

Linking Rosetta statically or dynamically with other modules is making a
combined work based on Rosetta.  Thus, the terms and conditions of the GPL
cover the whole combination.  As a special exception, the copyright holders of
Rosetta give you permission to link Rosetta with independent modules,
regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and
distribute the resulting combined work under terms of your choice, provided
that every copy of the combined work is accompanied by a complete copy of the
source code of Rosetta (the version of Rosetta used to produce the combined
work), being distributed under the terms of the GPL plus this exception.  An
independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on Rosetta,
and which is fully useable when not linked to Rosetta in any form.

Any versions of Rosetta that you modify and distribute must carry prominent
notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any changes, in
addition to preserving this original copyright notice and other credits.
Rosetta is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

While it is by no means required, the copyright holders of Rosetta would
appreciate being informed any time you create a modified version of Rosetta
that you are willing to distribute, because that is a practical way of
suggesting improvements to the standard version.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

None besides myself so far.

FIN

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