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SQL-Routine-Castaways-0.31
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NAME

SQL::Routine::Castaways - Archaic functionality that was stripped from SQL::Routine

DESCRIPTION

This documentation file is a small place-holder to represent the "SQL-Routine-Castaways" distribution on CPAN; its NAME would get used by CPAN as the brief descriptive blurb for this distribution among a list of distributions. You should continue by reading the documentation in the 2 functional modules, SQL::Routine::ByTree and SQL::Routine::SkipID.

THE FUTURE

No further development is planned for these modules, though the occasional updates may be made anyway.

Their reason to exist so far has 3 main aspects: 1. To preserve functionality that was once developed in SQL::Routine and later stripped from it, for historical posterity or for learning from; 2. To help test SQL::Routine through its further development by exercising parts of it that other types of tests didn't touch, including the ability to be sub-classed, and this allowed me to expose bugs or design flaws in SQL::Routine a lot sooner; 3. to serve as an example to future module or application builders on ways that SQL::Routine can be used or extended.

While I may occasionally give attention to these modules, such as to keep them compatible with changes to the parent class and test said parent, I will mostly be ignoring these modules from now on. The parent and some other users of it will keep my attention instead.

Note that I forsaw these modules' short life and intentionally gave them names which I thought other people would not want to use for a module themselves.

If you would like to make new modules of your own which conceptually replaces any of these ones, and does the job properly, then you have my blessing. But please tell me about it so I can add a reference to it. You may also blatantly copy any code from these modules to your own, though I request to be credited. Or alternately, if you wish to become the primary maintainer of these actual modules with respect to CPAN, then please write me to arrange it (and credit me).

SEE ALSO

SQL::Routine and various other modules mentioned in its SEE ALSO.