Re: DBD-Oracle-1.23 Makefile.PL patch

"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:17:01 -0500, John Scoles <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Of you could give it a try on 64 bit power solaris it you want to tug 
> all of your hair out.

Would that be just as bad as True64?
I feel your pain however.

> H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:41:19 -0400, Ralph Doncaster
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 11/27/09, H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:21:05 -0400, Ralph Doncaster
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> While you're at it, I'd like to see some more changes:
> >>> * make /usr/share/oracle not hardcoded but variable
> >>>       
> >> We're running Oracle & perl on a few Unix boxes without a
> >> /usr/share/oracle, so it seems it's not required in some cases.  Our
> >> install is in /usr/oracle, and there's no oracle link in /usr/share.
> >
> > There is a (huge) difference between a full Oracle install (server) or
> > an Instant Client only. I prefer the latter if the box is to be client
> > only, because it is much smaller.
> >   
> >>> * make Instant Client work on windows too (Windows instant client works
> >>>   fine with the current Makefile.PL if installed on
> >>>   C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_1, but it does NOT work at all when
> >>>   installed in C:\Program Files\Oracle\... due to the space (I tried
> >>>   yesterday with the newest Strawberry)
> >>
> >> Sorry, I only do perl on Unix.
> >
> > So want I, but those silly customers ...
> >
> > That being said, I think Oracle on Windows is still easier than Oracle
> > on AIX, which is even worse.
> >
> > That being said, Postgres is easier on *any* platform (and faster) than
> > Oracle, but again, those silly customers ...

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