Re: trouble with fresh ActiveState PPM install of DBD::Oracle

I will look into this about the readmes. I think the main problem is
number of Oracle clients that are out there now. When the Readme was
first written there was only one and PPM would work fine now there are
at least two different flavors of the Oracle client (instantClient and
Enterprise??) (not couting different versions) so perhaps PPM should
have an DBD::Oracle install for each??

n8 wrote:
Thanks for the reply! I'll try that (though I thought the PPM
DBD::Oracle install which downloads the Instant Client was supposed to
get around the DBD::Oracle compiled with the same compiler as the
Oracle client problem).

The annoying things are that

a) ActiveState's DBD-Oracle worked fine for me at one point

b) the README.win32.txt begins,

In general, on Windows, it's best to just use ActiveState Perl and the
PPM package manager to install a pre-built version of DBD::Oracle.

and continues later,

The preferred method of getting DBD::Oracle is to use a pre-built
version from the ActiveState repository, which can be installed with
PPM.

I wonder, is there any way to help ActiveState fix the PPM? I'd rather
spend some time doing that than building it on my machine and having to
figure it all out again next time I need it. But I don't know whom I
should contact about that... I guess I'll try asking on the ActivePerl
mailing list.

.

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