Re: New experimental development release of DBD::ODBC 1.23_4 - faster - please test

Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Martin J. Evans wrote:
>> As ActiveState do not release development builds (no criticism
>> intended) I am looking at producing a ppm for people to try.
> 
> Note that everyone can also just compile the module for themselves
> with ActivePerl:
> 
>     cpan M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.23_4.tar.gz
> 
> If you don't have Microsoft VC on your PATH, then this will download
> and install MinGW for you (inside the Perl tree) and use that instead.
> 
> This should work for the latest builds of all major Perl versions,
> 5.8.9.827, 5.10.1.1007 and 5.12.0.1200.  On older versions you may
> need to install MinGW with PPM "by-hand" first:
> 
>     ppm install MinGW
>     cpan M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.23_4.tar.gz
> 
> On ActivePerl 5.8.8 and earlier you will have to download, install
> and configure MinGW and dmake manually though, so you may not want
> to bother...
> 
> Cheers,
> -Jan
> 
> 
> 

Thanks Jan and sorry I missed some of the chat on #dbi yesterday that I
guess led to this. I will add your advice to DBD::ODBC.

Martin
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