On 2008-04-17 21:43:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the > > Oracle 8 and > Oracle 9 clients > > I was just reviewing the code today and there are a large number of little > fixes here and there to make these two clients work with later versions of > DBD::Oracle.
We still have some 8i databases, but since they can be accessed with an Oracle 10 client[0], that's not a problem. If I have a reason to upgrade to a newer DBD::Oracle on a machine I can just install a version 10 client there, too. > So I was thinking of cleaning up the code so that the next version 1.22 > only supports 9.6 and later clients? Go ahead. hp [0] Not just theoretically. I do have a number of perl scripts using a version 10 client which access one of the old 8i databases. Sometimes things are a bit weird (especially with UTF-8), but it works. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | If I wanted to be "academically correct", |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd be programming in Java. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't, and I'm not. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jesse Erlbaum on dbi-users
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