net/p5-Net-Z3950-Zoom 1.30p1 OpenBSD

This distribution contains three Perl modules for the price of one. They all provide facilities for building information retrieval clients using the standard Z39.50 and SRW/U protocols, but do so using different APIs.

• If you are new to this distribution, then you should use the ZOOM API, and ignore the others. It is the cleanest, most elegant and intuitive, and most closely follows the letter as well as the spirit of the Abstract ZOOM API as specified at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/

• If you have used the old Net::Z3950 module and have to maintain an application that calls that API, then you will want to use the Net::Z3950 classes provided in this distribution, which provide an API compatible with the old module's implemented on top of the new ZOOM code.

• You should definitely not use the Net::Z3950::ZOOM API, which is not object-oriented, and instead provides the thinnest possible layer on top of the ZOOM-C functions in the YAZ toolkit. This API exists only in order to have ZOOM API built on top of it.