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diff --git a/databases/p5-DBIx-Admin-DSNManager/pkg-descr b/databases/p5-DBIx-Admin-DSNManager/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..381ce7d48f47 --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/p5-DBIx-Admin-DSNManager/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +DBIx::Admin::DSNManager manages a file of DSNs, for both testing and production. + +The INI-style format was selected, rather than, say, using an SQLite database, +so that casual users could edit the file without needing to know SQL and without +having to install the command line program sqlite3. + +Each DSN is normally for something requiring manual preparation, such as +creating the database named in the DSN. + +In the case of SQLite, etc, where manual intervention is not required, you can +still put the DSN in dsn.ini. + +One major use of this module is to avoid environment variable overload, since it +is common to test Perl modules by setting the env vars $DBI_DSN, $DBI_USER and +$DBI_PASS. + +But then the problem becomes: What do you do when you want to run tests against +a set of databases servers? Some modules define sets of env vars, one set per +database server, with awkward and hard-to-guess names. This is messy and +obscure. + +DBIx::Admin::DSNManager is a solution to this problem. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Admin-DSNManager/ |