Bug#367007: ITP: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl -- Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information Retrieval via Z39.50
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:00:38PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Description : Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information Retrieval via Z39.50
>
> This module provides a nice, Perlish implementation of the ZOOM
> Abstract API described and documented at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/
> .
> The ZOOM module is implemented as a set of thin classes on top of the
> non-OO functions provided by this distribution's Net::Z3950::ZOOM module,
> which in turn is a thin layer on top of the ZOOM-C code supplied as part of
> Index Data's YAZ Toolkit. Because ZOOM-C is also the underlying code that
> implements ZOOM bindings in C++, Visual Basic, Scheme, Ruby, .NET
> (including C#) and other languages, this Perl module works compatibly with
> those other implementations. (Of course, the point of a public API such as
> ZOOM is that all implementations should be compatible anyway; but knowing
> that the same code is running is reassuring.)
> .
> Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.pm
Okay, so now I've read all that, and I'm stuck with one question: WTF is
'ZOOM'?
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