We really need a proposed overall list of additions for 1.5 which we can vet and decide on.

Hi Richard,

Do you mean do a collection of *commonly-used perl database support
packages* or *common perl packages* to propose the overall list?

If the former, I think perl-DBI and perl-DBD-SQLite is ok, because
we only support SQLite in oe-core. If the latter, would you please
give some suggestions about the scope?

Thanks,
Hongxu

The DBI is a database access module for the Perl programming language.
It defines a set of methods, variables, and conventions that provide
a consistent database interface, independent of the actual database
being used.
             |<- Scope of DBI ->|
                  .-.   .--------------.   .-------------.
  .-------.       | |---| XYZ Driver   |---| XYZ Engine  |
  | Perl  |       | |   `--------------'   `-------------'
  | script|  |A|  |D|   .--------------.   .-------------.
  | using |--|P|--|B|---|Oracle Driver |---|Oracle Engine|
  | DBI   |  |I|  |I|   `--------------'   `-------------'
  | API   |       | |...
  |methods|       | |... Other drivers
  `-------'       | |...
                  `-'
DBI requires one or more 'driver' modules to talk to databases.
As only SQLite and mysql are supported in yocto, we choose to
support DBD::SQLite and DBD::mysql modules in oe-core.

The proposed list:
- DBI, DBI-1.628, Database independent interface for Perl.
- DBD::SQLite, DBD-SQLite-1.40, Yocto support SQLite in oe-core.
- DBD::mysql, DBD-mysql-4.023, Yocto support mysql in meta-oe.

Hongxu,

Adding the DBI generic module and sqlite/mysql support seems fine to me.

People will always want more perl (python/ruby/...) packages but for now these three packages will suffice. Thanks. // Randy

Create a layer meta-perl to collect additional perl recipes:

Currently only perl-DBI and perl-DBD-SQLite are supported.

* Git repository
git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded 

* Subdirectory
meta-perl

* Dependencies
openembedded-core

Thanks Hongxu. That's a good start and we can point people to meta-perl if they want to add additional perl modules.

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