Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-30 Thread Gianni Ceccarelli
Job van Achterberg wrote: >My wife and I hope to attend this year (last year was grand). Here's a >humble request for couch surfing! I have a guest room with a queen-size bed. It takes about 1h to get to the LPW from my house. -- dakkar - mobilis in mobile

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-30 Thread Job van Achterberg
Hi everyone, Thanks for your kind offers, we've got a place to stay (actually a standing offer I'd forgotten about) so we'll be seeing you all there. Very much looking forward to it! Job On 10/30/12 10:49, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: Job van Achterberg wrote: My wife and I hope to attend this

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Jack
From: Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk > Well, there's only one standard Perl distribution[1]. And that doesn't > include any DBD modules. It doesn't even include DBI. > > There are a number of distributions that include modules beyond the > standard set. Offhand I can think of ActivePerl[2], Stra

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 30 October 2012 17:32, Chris Jack wrote: [ oh god, my eyes. please fix your mailer / quoting / attribution. please. please. i'm begging. ] >> There are, however, a couple of alternatives that you can consider. >> Firstly, for a module to be considered "real" to most Perl >> programmers, it ne

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Peter Corlett
On 30 Oct 2012, at 16:32, Chris Jack wrote: [...] > IMHO mysql got itself scr"wed for all time when it was acquired by Oracle. > How better to control what features get added to a low end competitor. At the > same time, you're dissuading development on other open source databases by > having som

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread DAVID HODGKINSON
Chris, Can you define "proprietary" please? It will be shipped with .so files? The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? Anything else? Dave

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Uri Guttman
On 10/30/2012 01:35 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Chris, Can you define "proprietary" please? It will be shipped with .so files? The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? it seems pretty obvious to me. the sybase people have written a new driver which is being released