Set::Relation
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by Darren Duncan <darren@DarrenDuncan.net>
PREFACE
This distribution features the Perl 5 or 6 (depending on which copy of this
README file you are reading) module named Set::Relation (Relation data type
for Perl) and its support structure.
Set::Relation has 2 co-developed versions, which are written in native
Perl 5 and Perl 6 respectively, and which are distributed separately from
each other. But while the 2 versions would be similar, they are explicitly
not intended to be drop-in substitutable for each other, as each would have
some API differences that optimizes it for its host language. The actual
Muldis D language specification document will be identical for both,
though.
The Perl 5 version is intended to be the primary version during the present
time, as Perl 5 itself is stable, production-ready, and commonly used now.
Eventually the Perl 6 version is expected to supercede it, once Perl 6
itself has implementations that are production-ready and in common use.
That all being said, development of the Perl 6 version has been temporarily
suspended, to focus resources on the Perl 5 version, and therefore the Perl
6 version is likely out of date by the time you read this. In the future,
the more-advanced Perl 5 version will be translated to Perl 6 again, either
to re-establish their parallel development, or just to provide snapshots.
Read below for how to get support or keep up to date.
DOCUMENTATION READING ORDER
If you want to read all the Set::Relation documentation that exists now in
this distribution, I recommend doing so in this order:
1. README
2. (opt) Changes
3. lib/Set/Relation.pm
4. lib/Set/Relation/V1.pm
5. lib/Set/Relation/V2.pm
6. (opt) TODO
Then you can carry on with anything else.
You may prefer the nicely HTML-formatted versions of the above, which are
available at "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-Relation/".
I also suggest the Muldis-D-Manual distribution, which is available at
"http://search.cpan.org/dist/Muldis-D-Manual/".
KEEPING UP TO DATE
My module set is constantly under development. The canonical copies are
all linked to through my personal website, "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/",
on the page called "Perl Libraries I Made" (name subject to change). Some
of these modules are also linked to through my business website,
"http://www.muldis.com/", on its front page.
For those of you that are interested in the bleeding edge of development, I
have all parts of the Set::Relation project in one or more public
repositories. The Perl 5 Set::Relation project is in a Git repository
whose public clone url is "git://github.com/muldis/Set-Relation.git" and
whose web information url is at "http://github.com/muldis/Set-Relation".
It is also in a Git repository whose public clone url is
"git://utsl.gen.nz/Set-Relation" and whose web information url is at
"http://utsl.gen.nz/gitweb/?p=Set-Relation". The Perl 6 Set::Relation
project is in a Subversion repository at
"http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/ext/Set-Relation/".
You can download slightly older versions of all of my modules from the
public CPAN archives at "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or
on my own web server at "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 at
"http://search.cpan.org", and my own DUNCAND author page is at
"http://search.cpan.org/search?author=DUNCAND".
The main CPAN search site url for Set::Relation for Perl 5 is
"http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-Relation/"; that is the url you should
link to presently if you want something to consider the "home page" of
Set::Relation; it is best to refer people there by default.
You can download my oldest tarred and gzipped 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/", right back
to the libdwg 1.0, first released on 2000 July 23.
SUPPORT
Several public email-based forums exist whose main topic is all
implementations of the Muldis D language, especially the Muldis Rosetta
reference implementation, but also the Set::Relation module. They exist so
that Muldis D / Muldis Rosetta users can help each other, or that help
coming from Muldis D / Muldis Rosetta developers can be said once to many
people, rather than to each individually. All of these you can reach via
"http://mm.DarrenDuncan.net/mailman/listinfo".
Alternately, you can purchase more advanced commercial support for various
Muldis D implementations, particularly Muldis Rosetta, from its author by
way of Muldis Data Systems; see "http://www.muldis.com/" for details.
FIN
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