That (installing DBD ADO on linux) certainly wasn't my intention - I just
installed Bundle::DBI from CPAN assuming it would be somewhat non-platform
specific... the ADO thing didn't make much sense to me in a linux context
either, nor did the fact that the code I ran felt compelled to install *any*
drivers (much less ADO,) i.e., if I understand it right the code should be
doing nothing but inventorying drivers that are present.
Al Spohn
Publishing and Media Technology Services
Mayo Clinic 507-284-1666
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Initial Install Issue
>
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2001 08:32:05 -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
>
> >Win32::OLE is win only module.
>
> As "ADO" stands for "ActiveX Data Objects", I would say this
> counts for
> ADO also.
>
> I quote from the Perl DBI book (p.171):
>
> ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is Microsoft's latest flavor of
> proprietary
> Win32-only data access API.
> ...
> If it helps, you can think of ADO as a layer of gloss over ODBC,
> though in fact it's built on Microsoft's OLE DB API.
>
> I'd say it's a mistake even trying to install DBD::ADO on Linux.
>
> --
> Bart.
>
