[rochester-pm-list] Anyone with experience adding DBI/DBD to ActiveState Perl?

[Brian Mathis]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Alex Macur wrote:
> Thanks for the hint Brian.
> 
> Being the UNIX bigot that I am I forgot about evil .DLLs. (of course I've
> NEVER had a problem due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH being wrong ;-)
> 
> I'll look into the ActiveState Perl Package Manager. 
> 
> My original post was going to be would it be easier to just install FreeBSD
> or Linux instead of trying to set up a perl development environment under
> NT. 
> 
> oraperl.pl is ancient. Oraperl.pm emulates the old oraperl API but uses the
> current DBI/DBD technology for database connectivity. If you happen to be
> unfortunate enough to inherit a large amount of code that uses the old
> Oraperl API (IMHO) using oraperl.pm beats doing a major rewrite to the
> DBI/DBD API.
> 
> Alex

Ahh, I thought you were talking about the oraperl binary itself.  Didn't
know there was an oraperl.pm.  That makes plenty of sense then :)

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Brian Mathis
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