>>>>> "SV" == Steven Vetzal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SV> Greetings,
>> to say "ping doesn't work in all cases" without qualifiying why and/or
>> which drivers that applies to.
SV> We've had to write our own ->ping method for the MySQL DBD
SV> driver. Our developer tried to track down a maintainer for the
SV> DBD::msql/mysql module to submit a diff, but to no avail.
How old a version are you talking about? In any case, according to
CPAN, the DBD::mysql module is "owned" by
Module id = DBD::mysql
DESCRIPTION Mysql Driver for DBI
CPAN_USERID JWIED (Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
CPAN_VERSION 2.0414
CPAN_FILE J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz
DSLI_STATUS RmcO (released,mailing-list,C,object-oriented)
INST_FILE (not installed)
and I *know* he's responsive to that email address at least as of a
month or so ago, as we exchanged correspondence on another matter.
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