DBI states that DBD drivers should provide a Bundle::DBD::Foo to leverage the CPAN 'Bundle' mechanism. (ref: https://metacpan.org/module/DBI::DBD#lib-Bundle-DBD-Driver.pm)
As a result many of the DBD driver distributions - such as DBD::Pg, DBD::mysql, DBD::CSV - provide such a Bundle. Note that DBD::ODBC and DBD::Oracle do not have a corresponding Bundle. However the Bundle mechanism, which is described at https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN#Bundles - is deprecated; dependencies for DBD drivers can be correctly specified in Makefile.PL, Build.PL and/or dist.ini I brought this issue up on #dbi, was pointed to #toolchain , asked there and they confirmed my assumption that the Bundle:: modules don't serve any purpose; or at least not anymore, and probably for a *very* long time already. It could be that people 'depend' on a Bundle module so I think we should not remove existing bundles. my proposal is: - Remove the section from DBI documentation that states a DBD should have a Bundle - Update the text in the existing Bundles, which now typically reads someting along the lines of "This bundle includes all that is needed to connect with a MySQL server using DBI." to "This file exists for historical reasons." Feedback very welcome! -- Mike
