Some years ago I submitted a docpatch for perltie to mention DBM::Deep
alongside MLDBM. This updates that patch.
The change is merely to remove the word "experimental" now that DBM::Deep
is over five years old and is stable.
$ diff -u ./pod/perltie.pod~ ./pod/perltie.pod
Signed-off-by: Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>
You cannot easily tie a multilevel data structure (such as a hash of
hashes) to a dbm file. The first problem is that all but GDBM and
Berkeley DB have size limitations, but beyond that, you also have problems
-with how references are to be represented on disk. One experimental
+with how references are to be represented on disk. One
module that does attempt to address this need is DBM::Deep. Check your
nearest CPAN site as described in L<perlmodlib> for source code. Note
that despite its name, DBM::Deep does not use dbm. Another earlier attempt