On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:00 , Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
>>
>> Whats the difference between a module and a bundle as i can
>> see while downloading DBI from CPAN website.
>> What exactly needs to be downloaded . I'm kind of not sure about it.
>
> I have never heard of a 'bundle' in context with Perl but that may
> be because I know little about Perl.
>
> DBI can be got from
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/DBI-1.53.tar.gz
> and DBD-Pg is on
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/DBD-Pg-1.49.tar.gz
A "bundle" is merely a collection of modules that are often used
together. For example, installing "Bundle::DBI" installs a bunch of
DBI drivers and tools.
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.53/lib/Bundle/DBI.pm
-M
