Just an answer to one of your questions. Activestate distribution is for
Windows. For unix all modules are stored in www.cpan.org
Ilya Sterin
-----Original Message-----
From: Capacio, Paula J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General ?'s about DBD's and platforms
PSCI_1I am relatively new to Perl, primary experience through Windows NT
with limited knowledge of UNIX. I have been instructed to identify a
corporate standard version of Perl and upgrade our desktops and servers.
For
servers we have NT, HP/UX and SunSolaris. We run Oracle 7 & 8, and DB2
UDB.
Is it naive of me to think that I can have one standard build of perl
for
the corporation? I was thinking of having one, with DBD's for all our
databases included...meaning the DB2 DBD would be installed even on a
server
running only Oracle; it wouldn't be used it would just be there such
that
there was a standard configuration. Or should I have multiple
configurations, one per OS platform and even perhaps DBMS?
I saw in the dbi-archives warnings against mixing Oracle 7 & 8
implementations. Yet saw other items indicating users having both
Oracle
and Oracle8 DBD's installed. Can someone clarify this for me, can I
have
both versions of the Oracle DBD or do I have to match the Oracle client
and/or DB level?
Also, when looking at the ActiveState ActivePerl5.6 build 623 PPM
packages,
it appears that the DBD:Oracle is not available for Solaris and no
mention
of UNIX whatsoever.
http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/Packages
Should I be looking somewhere else (CPAN) instead? I've never done
Make's
before...and well you know, it's kind of a fear of the
unknown....ok...I'm
chicken :-)
TIA
Paula (a.k.a A fish out of water! :-) )
