Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-05-02 Thread scoles
Well looking at this thread and talking with a number of other community members I think we will keep 9 support for now but drop direct support of 8 going forward. I will announce this on a few more forms before I commit this change though. Cheers and Thanks for you opinions John Scoles

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-23 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the > > Oracle 8 and > Oracle 9 clients Though personally I no longer have an 7.x databases to work with,

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, scoles @pythian.com writes: >With the upcoming demise of Oracle support of 9i we will see a good number 9i (9.2.0.8) still has some support life left: http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/oracle-technical-support-policies.pdf> http://www.oracle.com/support/colla

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-18 Thread Richard T Malafa
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Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-18 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2008-04-17 21:43:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the > > Oracle 8 and > Oracle 9 clients > > I was just reviewing the code today and there are a large number o

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-17 Thread Eugene Krivdyuk
2008/4/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the [... skipped ...] > Basically what I would like to know who uses what clients. I'm using Oracle 9i in some l

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-17 Thread Christian Merz
Hi scoles, i am already running DBD on all my old Oracle installations, upgrades are not planned. Usually, i run DBD on the host where my Oracle is installed, so no extra client is needed. For new oracle installations (V10/V11) i will fetch a fresh DBD. as to me, there is no more need to sup

DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-17 Thread scoles
I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the Oracle 8 and Oracle 9 clients I was just reviewing the code today and there are a large number of little fixes here and there to make these two clients work with lat