Hi Shmuel, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:57:59 +0900 Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all. > > I was surprised to learn that DBI.pm is not a core module. > It is installed everywhere, right? just not core... > DBI.pm is indeed not a core module. Furthermore, DBI.pm is not very useful without any DBD:: drivers: https://metacpan.org/search?q=dbd , and these are often dependent on vendor libraries. Regarding it being installed everywhere - it is not inconceivable that some systems won't carry it. Furthermore, some operating systems' distributions move away some parts of the Perl core to different packages, in order to save space on the default installation, so you should not assume that everything core is installed by default either. And naturally Perl may not be installed at all either in the first place (as is the case for Microsoft Windows, or some minimalistic by default Linux distributions). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs I used to be arrogant. Now I’m simply Perfect. — one of Shlomi Fish’s relatives. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
