Thanks for the quick response. Sounds like you've answered my question, but I will go ahead and explain my situation.
We are using the old versions because we never had an issue or moved to a version of Perl or Oracle that needed us to change. If we did we would have upgraded at that time. What has happened is corporate standards have changed - we have to have an exception to use DBD/DBI (which makes no sense to me because both Perl and Oracle are standard within the company). The need for an exception has been true for years, but this year they want some proof of community support. We are now moving to current versions because of this, but if we can't show proof of support we will have a gap until we can schedule & test the upgrade. Basically everything is still working great & I anticipate no problems between now and the move to current versions, but corporate policies are making waves. And yes, they really should be paying for support, but that decision is made by people well above me. Thanks, Gary -----Original Message----- From: Martin J. Evans [mailto:martin.ev...@easysoft.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:14 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE? On 23/01/12 14:13, TIDWELL, GARY wrote: > Hi all, we are currently using DBD::ORACLE 1.16 and DBI 1.46, and I'm having > a tough time > trying to determine if either of these are still supported by the open source > community. > > All help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Gary > > > DBI 1.46 isn't even on cpan now - it has been moved to backpan. It was released 16 Nov 2004 and has been superseded by 19 releases on CPAN. DBD::Oracle 1.16 was released 22 Oct 2004 and has been superseded by 23 releases. So you are using 7 year code both of which has moved on a lot since then. I help out with both of those modules and if you had a problem with either of them that old my response would likely be to upgrade. However, it depends on what you mean by "support" - what do you mean? Presumably because you are using really old perl modules either a) the code was written ages ago or b) you need to use a really old version of Perl newer DBI and DBD::Oracle modules no longer support? If it is (a) then so long as you don't change anything why would you need support? If it is (b) and you seriously cannot move to a newer Perl you've got the same problem with Perl itself. With DBD::Oracle, the latest version is so different from the one you are using (code-wise) I doubt even if you found a bug which was still present in the newest release you'd persuade anyone to also fix it in 1.16. Perhaps you need to explain why you've asked the question. Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com
