RE: ActiveState DBI 1.45 PPM may not be correct

From: Jeff Urlwin (jurlwin_at_esoftmatic.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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    To: "'Marc M. Adkins'" <Marc.M.Adkins@Doorways.org>, "'Perl - DBI users'" <dbi-users@perl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:58:37 -0400

    > I was sceptical but I went back to work today and did it all
    > again. Several
    > times. Each time PPM would say it was (un)installing 1.45.
    > But each time I
    > looked at the installed source (the DBI.pm file, never mind
    > the DLL) it said
    > 1.43 and had a revision date of February 2004.
    >
    > Finally I sent off a message to ActiveState. They responded
    > (in part):
    >
    > You are correct, sir - there seems to be some confusion
    > on PPM right now.
    > I have escalated the issue to our build team and hope
    > to have some news
    > for you in a day or so.
    >
    > So I'm thinking that I did install it properly but it wasn't
    > the right stuff.
    > Hopefully this will resolve quickly, but in the meantime
    > ActiveState's PPM
    > respository may not be up to their usual standards.
    >
    > mma
    >

    Use my repository for DBI related stuff. If there's something missing there that you
    would like (DBI related), let me know. Mine even has DBD::Oracle :)

    http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI for instructions.

    Regards,

    Jeff

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