Hi, Jeff,
Quoting Jeff Urlwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> One thing to keep in mind is that you *should* get your binary built
> modules
> from the same location. So, if you want DBD::Oracle, make sure you get
> DBI from my site.
this is what bothers me. First of all, note that the current release
is build 806. I *think* that the modules will be upwards compatible,
but your sentence above makes me suspicious. Besides, I think it is
unlucky to be bound to your vesion of DBI. For example, it might
prevent me from using my own version of DBD::DB2, DBD::mysql or
whatever.
I would propose that you instead try to get DBD::Oracle into the
ActiveState repository. (Note that DBD::ODBC already is there.)
>From my experience with DBD::mysql I know that
a) The ActiveState people are interested in adding important
database drivers to the repository and
b) they have the (quite understandable) expectation that the
driver can be built automatically on their system.
In the case of DBD::mysql, things went as follows: I posted a question
on the perl-win32 list and receieved a response from Jan Dubois (of
ActiveState) that they have been unable to do an automatic build.
After exchanging several emails (including some bug fixes in the
test suite from Jan, which showed up on Windows only) they were able
to add the driver to their repository.
Yours,
Jochen
