That was simply an error on my part. Sorry.
Tom, please send me the latest DBD::ADO (or else say that the one
on CPAN is the latest you want included in the DBI).
Tim.
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:21:11AM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded from DBI 1.14 to 1.15. After the install completed, I
> ran a check on what else needed to be upgraded, the CPAN module reports
> that DBD::ADO module needs to be upgraded from the current 0.419 to
> version 1.17 as found in DBI 1.14.
>
> Why did the version regress? Let's take a look at the code for
> blib/DBD/ADO.pm in DBI 1.15 and 1.14:
>
> Anubis JL: pwd
> /work/jleffler/.cpan/build/DBI-1.15
> Anubis JL: grep '$VERSION =' lib/DBD/ADO.pm
> $VERSION = '0.4'.sprintf("%02d",substr(q$Revision: 1.19 $, 12,-1));
> Anubis JL: cd /work2/DBD-Informix/DBI-1.14
> Anubis JL: grep '$VERSION =' lib/DBD/ADO.pm
> $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.17 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/o);
> Anubis JL:
>
> And there's the trouble -- the new code explicitly sets VERSION to
> 0.419, whereas the old code let it be 1.17.
>
> Any ideas on when this will be fixed?
>
> I'm probably going to hack my DBD::ADO module to set the version to 1.19
> so that I don't get told to reinstall DBD::ADO every time I check what
> needs to be upgraded (at least once per week), but I don't like it.
>
> And please remind everybody that you cannot regress version numbers!
>
> --
> Yours,
> Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #include <disclaimer.h>
> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN
> "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
>
