John D Groenveld wrote:
>
> Good to see you alive, well, and still coding Perl.
>
> Months ago, about the time of the Perl conference so it may have slipped
> under everyone's radar, Jeff Horn from U of Wisconsin sent you some patches
> to Apache::DBI to use Oracle 8's re-authenticate function instead of
> creating and caching a separate Oracle connection for each user. Did you
> decide whether to incorporate them or to suggest another module name for
> him to use? I wasn't able to participate in the discussion at the time,
> but I now have need for that functionality. I don't know if Jeff Horn is
> still around, but I'll track him down if necessary and offer to work on it.
>
Last info from Jeff was, that he was working on a patch which would provide
this functionality as a general feature. I don't like the idea to start
putting DB-specific features into Apache::DBI. But if this feature is available
for other databases as well, I would add it to the module.
> Also, I sent you a small patch to fix Apache::DBI warnings under Perl5.6.
> I hate to be a pest, but I'm rolling out software where the installation
> procedure requires the user to fetch Perl from Active State and Apache::DBI
> from CPAN. I'd rather not ship my own version of yours or any CPAN module.
>
> Thanks,
> John
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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