What do you get when you cross a mission-critical enterprise-class
database with a camel?

Name           DSLI  Description                                  Info
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ObjStore       Rm+O  ObjectStore OODBMS Interface                 JPRIT

- Requires ObjectStore OODBMS (http://www.odi.com) & perl 5.004_04.
- Perl 5.004_54 or better recommended.

Available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/ObjStore


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** 12-13-97 Released 1.21

- THE TUTORIAL IS DONE!  See ObjStore::Tutorial!

- Fixed numerous minor bugs; fixed ObjStore::UNIVERSAL::isa;
significant changes to posh; NOREFS invokation optimized out unless
the method is present; re-organized the stargate; moved CSV stuff to
ObjStore::CSV; untested support for kernel threads.

- 'Table' redesigned for performance.  See ObjStore::Table2.

- The documentation is updated & re-written!


** 11-21-97 Released 1.20

- 'bless' now stores the @ISA tree at bless-time.  Use $o->isa($class)
to query it.  For the transient @ISA, use $o->UNIVERSAL::isa($class).

- Reference support is revamped.  Transient references and unprotected
references are now supported.

- 'posh' is vastly enhanced.

- Basic export of 2D structure to CSV format files (Excel format).


see ./INSTALL for hints on installation
see ./UPGRADE to evolve databases from prior releases
see ./TODO for a list of stuff in the queue
see ./CHANGES for a visionary perspective


Perl-ObjectStore mailing list:

majordomo@parallax.co.uk   "subscribe perl-objectstore you@your.company.com"

(If you think you've run into a bug, try running your script with
"perl -MObjStore=PANIC" and mail the output to the mailing list.)

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Copyright (c) 1997 Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin.  All rights reserved.
This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as perl itself.
