What is the relation of DBD::Mysql to ODBC?

In http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/DBD-mysql/DBD/mysql.pm.html there are certain references to ODBC but afaik DBD::mysql is "parallel" in the connection stack to DBD::ODBC.

开发者_运维问答Does anyone know why is ODBC mentioned there?

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DBD::mysql supports the ODBC style DSNs like DBI:mysql:database=test;host=localhost. It contains some functions to parse these DSNs.