# The net/p5-Net-Z3950-Zoom port

## p5-Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.25p5 – perl interface to yaz zoom

## Description

    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.

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/

Categories:
  net perl5

## Library dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- converters/libiconv
- net/yaz

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- devel/gettext-tools

## Run dependencies

- STEM->=0.10.38:devel/gettext
- converters/p5-MARC-Record