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-rw-r--r--databases/p5-Class-DBI/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--databases/p5-Class-DBI/distinfo2
-rw-r--r--databases/p5-Class-DBI/pkg-descr17
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/Makefile b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/Makefile
index 2449aca3db03..d9d82e471bf9 100644
--- a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/Makefile
+++ b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#
PORTNAME= Class-DBI
-PORTVERSION= 0.86
+PORTVERSION= 0.89
CATEGORIES= databases perl5
MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= Class
diff --git a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/distinfo b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/distinfo
index 56c5a8277e8c..2bd655f2b184 100644
--- a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/distinfo
+++ b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (Class-DBI-0.86.tar.gz) = 6855d1532296332623fc0da0da6c4b41
+MD5 (Class-DBI-0.89.tar.gz) = 5336c839d5ca3e6dc8980fe4eac5fe73
diff --git a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/pkg-descr b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/pkg-descr
index 629e497f8dc0..fc4aa4d057ec 100644
--- a/databases/p5-Class-DBI/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/p5-Class-DBI/pkg-descr
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-Although the difficulties in serialising objects to a relational
-database are well documented, we often find outselves using such a
-database to store the data that will make up the objects in our system.
+Class::DBI provides a convenient abstraction layer to a database.
-Thus we end up writing many classes, each mapping to a table in our
-database, and each containing accessor and mutator methods for each of
-the columns. We then write simple constructors, search methods and the
-like for each these classes.
+It not only provides a simple database to object mapping layer, but can
+be used to implement several higher order database functions (triggers,
+referential integrity, cascading delete etc.), at the application level,
+rather than at the database.
-Class::DBI is here to make this task trivial.
+This is particularly useful when using a database which doesn't support
+these (such as MySQL), or when you would like your code to be portable
+across multiple databases which might implement these things in
+different ways.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Class-DBI