On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:05:17PM +0200, Kristian Nielsen wrote: > Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But since *very* few people would need the ability to > > share database connections with ProC/SQLLIB code my preference > > Yes, I agree, I implemented this because I wanted to migrate a large > ProC based codebase gradually to using Perl/DBI, so I am embedding Perl > in a ProC-based application. Few people would ever find themselves in > this unfortunate situation, and if they did, having to slightly tweak > the DBD::Oracle build would be the least of their problems. > > > right now is to just disable it entirely on Windows and > > only enable it on other platforms for Oracle >= 9.0. > > Hm, I *think* that I had this running on 8.1.7 before we upgraded to > Oracle 9. Not absolutely sure though.
I'll probably go the route of disabling it unless "perl Makefile.PL" is run with an option - as per the patch Steffen posted earlier. > Sorry that I cannot help with the Windows part, but I do not have > access to a Windows Oracle development environment. The windows problem will disapear once the ProC interface code is disabled. (Unless some poor soul needs ProC interface code on Windows, but we can deal with that if it ever happens.) Tim.
