ports/89703: [maintainer-update] textproc/refdb to 0.9.6

[Markus Hoenicka]

Volker Stolz <stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> was heard to say:

> Glad to have you in here! I doubt that versioning is the problem, though:
> If I understood correctly, the problem ist that dbi-drivers can be configured
> in a way that either Postgres or MySQL-support is missing, thus requiring
> manual intervention (rebuild).
>

True indeed. The idea of libdbi is to give the end-user of an application a
choice which database engine she wants to use. Therefore libdbi may be
installed, but not necessarily with the driver that the user selects when
installing the RefDB port.

> I think the dbi-drivers need to be split in separate FreeBSD-ports. The
> lib/dbd/libfoo.so
> backends are all independent, aren't they? Xin Li, any chance of splitting
> the
> port? I'll be glad to help.
>

Also true. You just need libdbi, libdbdfoo.so (the drivers were renamed since
0.8.1), and foo-client.so to support the database engine foo. Actually Debian
does it the way you suggest. All drivers are packaged separately.

regards
Markus

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