RE: Perl 5.6 to 5.8 caveats for DBI

From: Jeff Urlwin (jurlwin_at_esoftmatic.com)
Date: 01/09/05 

To: "'Michael Ragsdale'" <mragsdal@utk.edu>, "'Capacio, Paula J'" <PCAPACIO@amfam.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:21:17 -0500

>
> At 12:23 PM 1/7/2005, Capacio, Paula J wrote:
>
> > >Are there any caveats that I should look out for
> > >regarding ActiveState Perl 5.8 and the latest DBI modules?
> >
> >Get your DBI and DBD modules from: http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI/
>
>
> Thanks. Now another question....
>
> I just upgraded to Perl 5.8.6 and the latest DBI binaries I
> found at that
> site are for 5.8.4. Will they still work or should I
> uninstall 5.8.6 and
> install 5.8.4 from ActiveState's archive, then install the
> modules? Or,
> even better, is there another repository that has DBI's
> compiled for 5.8.6?

Try the 5.8.4 version and let me know if it doesn't work ;)

Jeff

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