| 1 | Storable 2.14
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| 2 | Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Raphael Manfredi
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| 3 | Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Larry Wall
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| 4 |
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| 5 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 6 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 7 | it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 10 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 11 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 12 | Perl 5 License schemes for more details.
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| 13 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 14 |
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| 15 | +=======================================================================
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| 16 | | Storable is distributed as a module, but is also part of the official
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| 17 | | Perl core distribution, as of perl 5.8.
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| 18 | | Maintenance is now done by the perl5-porters. We thank Raphael
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| 19 | | Manfredi for providing us with this very useful module.
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| 20 | +=======================================================================
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| 21 |
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| 22 | The Storable extension brings persistency to your data.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | You may recursively store to disk any data structure, no matter how
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| 25 | complex and circular it is, provided it contains only SCALAR, ARRAY,
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| 26 | HASH (possibly tied) and references (possibly blessed) to those items.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | At a later stage, or in another program, you may retrieve data from
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| 29 | the stored file and recreate the same hiearchy in memory. If you
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| 30 | had blessed references, the retrieved references are blessed into
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| 31 | the same package, so you must make sure you have access to the
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| 32 | same perl class than the one used to create the relevant objects.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | There is also a dclone() routine which performs an optimized mirroring
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| 35 | of any data structure, preserving its topology.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Objects (blessed references) may also redefine the way storage and
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| 38 | retrieval is performed, and/or what deep cloning should do on those
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| 39 | objects.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | To compile this extension, run:
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| 42 |
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| 43 | perl Makefile.PL [PERL_SRC=...where you put perl sources...]
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| 44 | make
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| 45 | make install
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| 46 |
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| 47 | There is an embeded POD manual page in Storable.pm.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | Storable was written by Raphael Manfredi <[email protected]>
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| 50 | Maitainance is now done by the perl5-porters <[email protected]>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | Please e-mail us with problems, bug fixes, comments and complaints,
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| 53 | although if you have complements you should send them to Raphael.
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| 54 | Please don't e-mail Raphael with problems, as he no longer works on
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| 55 | Storable, and your message will be delayed while he forwards it to us.
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| 56 |
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| 57 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 58 | Thanks to (in chronological order):
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]>
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| 61 | Ulrich Pfeifer <[email protected]>
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| 62 | Benjamin A. Holzman <[email protected]>
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| 63 | Andrew Ford <[email protected]>
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| 64 | Gisle Aas <[email protected]>
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| 65 | Jeff Gresham <[email protected]>
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| 66 | Murray Nesbitt <[email protected]>
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| 67 | Albert N. Micheev <[email protected]>
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| 68 | Marc Lehmann <[email protected]>
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| 69 | Justin Banks <[email protected]>
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| 70 | Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> (AGAIN, as perl 5.7.0 Pumpkin!)
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| 71 |
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| 72 | for their contributions.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | A Japanese translation of this man page is available at the Japanized
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| 75 | Perl Resources Project <https://sourceforge.jp/projects/perldocjp/>.
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| 76 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 77 |
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| 78 | The perl5-porters would like to thank
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| 79 |
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| 80 | Raphael Manfredi <[email protected]>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | According to the perl5.8 Changes file, the following people have helped
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| 83 | bring you this Storable release:
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| 84 |
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| 85 | Abhijit Menon-Sen <[email protected]>
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| 86 | Andreas J. Koenig <[email protected]>
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| 87 | Archer Sully <[email protected]>
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| 88 | Craig A. Berry <[email protected]>
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| 89 | Dan Kogai <[email protected]>
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| 90 | Doug MacEachern <[email protected]>
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| 91 | Gurusamy Sarathy <[email protected]>
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| 92 | H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]>
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| 93 | Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]>
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| 94 | Mark Bixby
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| 95 | Michael Stevens <[email protected]>
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| 96 | Mike Guy <[email protected]>
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| 97 | Nicholas Clark <[email protected]>
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| 98 | Peter J. Farley III <[email protected]>
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| 99 | Peter Prymmer <[email protected]>
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| 100 | Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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| 101 | Raphael Manfredi <[email protected]>
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| 102 | Robin Barker <[email protected]>
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| 103 | Radu Greab <[email protected]>
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| 104 | Tim Bunce <[email protected]>
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| 105 | VMSperlers
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| 106 | Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[email protected]>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | If I've missed you out, please accept my apologies, and e-mail your
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| 109 | patch to [email protected].
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