On 13/10/10 02:25, Carlson, John W. wrote: > What is the recommended DBD::Oracle version and which instant client > should I compile against for Oracle 11g databases, RedHat el5xen > Linux x86_64 (64bit) architecture? There appears to be several > recent oddly named versions on CPAN. 1.26 is out there, but it > doesn't appear to be the latest release. Thanks for your help! > > John
The DBD-Oracle-1.25-withoutworldwriteables is because 1.25 was uploaded without world writeable dir (probably because it was packaged on Windows) and CPAN spots this and changes the name (amongst other things). The DBD-Oracle-1.26 was I believe uploaded by Tim Bunce to fix the above problem. I'm not sure what the DBD-Oracle-1.25_brokentar is unless it was uploaded to demonstrate a problem with CPAN. Use 1.26. I use Oracle Client 11.2 without any problems. Don't forget to download the "sdk" as well as the "basic" and it does not hurt to get "sqlplus" at the same time as it can be useful. Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com
