                              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 modules Scalar::Util and List::Util, which would
conceptually be built-in to Perl, but are 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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