> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter J. Holzer [mailto:h...@wsr.ac.at] > On 2010-03-16 17:14:32 -0500, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote: > > I am about to ask someone to install DBI and DBD-SQLite on > a platform. > > > > I noticed there are a number of related repos on CPAN: DBD-SQLite, > > DBD-SQLite2, DBD-SQLite-Amalgamation. > > > > Is DBD-SQLite the right one to get? > > Yes. > Thanks for the info.
> > > Also, the DBD-SQLite package has a funny description: > "Self-contained > > RDBMS in a DBI Driver". This doesn't mean that DBD-SQLite > re-implements > > all of SQLite, does it? > > No. It doesn't reimplement it, it just bundles it. > > > Or does it just mean that it is the Driver for > > the "Self-contained RDBMS" of SQLite? > > No. The drivers includes an SQLite version and will ignore any other > version which may already be installed on the system. > Interesting. In embedded systems there is often a lot of fighting over flash space, and if people are using SQLite then it has already been installed somewhere. Is there any way to get the driver to use the existing SQLite and to avoid the cost of installing the extra one that comes with DBD-SQLite? -Will
