Re: Help regarding ActiveState's PPM repository module for DBD-pg -- whichis currently unavailable!

Hi,

I assume this is ActivePerl on Windows?

If you open the Package Manager and add the repository

wxPerl (it is in the drop - down list )

you will find DBD::Pg 2.17.2 available.

I shall build 2.18 in the next couple of weeks and post here when available.

Regards

Mark

On 15/04/2011 20:48, Lawrence Hixson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I sit on The Perl Foundation's Steering Committee as the Donor Relations
> Chair and I may have meet some of you at previous YAPC's.
>
> First, I want to personally THANK YOU ALL for supporting Perl and the
> Perl Community with your programming skills! Secondly, I thank you for
> supporting PostgreSQL, which I'm anxious to use with my version of Perl!
>
> I've just recently started trying to work with PostgreSQL and want the
> full capabilities (or the most I can get) of the database using Perl,
> but I'm forced to use ActiveState by my employer for various security
> and IT policy reasons.
>
> I'm running ActivePerl 5.12.2 and cannot find your driver using their
> PPM module installer.
>
> More research yields this: http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-Pg/ and
> clicking on red ! buttons shows why. I notice that this driver is not
> available for ANY recent ActiveState version and I think it should be.
>
> I found this same situation was true for DBD-mysql, but I intervened and
> connected the module author and ActiveState and at least now the
> ActiveState DBD-mysql driver has some working versions that can be
> installed and work fine!
> Please see http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-mysql/
>
> Not just for myself, but for the greater ActiveState Perl community, may
> I please ask for your assistance in working with ActiveState to school
> them on how to get your module to compile for their module repositories
> so more of us can use PostgreSQL more fully?
>
> These are two GREAT people at ActiveState who can either help you or
> direct you to those who can help to get your module working with
> ActivePerl !
>
> Jan Dubois at [email protected]
>
> Jeff Hobbs at [email protected]
>
> If I can be of any other assistance to you, please email me! I plan to
> attend YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. I hope some of
> you will be attending!
>
> Sincerely,
> Lawrence K. Hixson
> Principal Systems Engineer/DBA
> U.S. National Weather Service
> Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
> 301-713-0022 x190