On 04/01/12 19:09, Yanick Champoux wrote: > Hi all, > > For a long time now, the documentation of DBD::Oracle had been > warning that Oraperl is deprecated. A few releases back, I ratcheted > up the warning and mentioned that Oraperl would be dropped from the > DBD::Oracle distro in the new year, after v1.38. > > And now that the new year and v1.38 are upon us, I'm thinking on > acting on the promise. But before I do, wisdom begs me to consult the > dbi hivemind. Sooo... Can anybody know of anyone/anything who would > be impacted (negatively) by the removal of said Oraperl? >
I started working with Oracle in 1993. At that time I wrote some simple utilities in oraperl. I read Yanick's recent warning, and reacted to it by wrapping my copies of Oraperl.pm with logging script. To my surprise, I found six or seven little oraperl scripts which were still in use, some in critical applications! I have now converted these scripts, and I am ready for the demise of Oraperl.pm. I am completely in favour of the abolition of oraperl, but I think it would be kind to start with a version which emits a warning message from the main line of Oraperl.pm, so any unfortunate end users of oraperl will have some time to convert, or seek advice. -- Charles Jardine - Computing Service, University of Cambridge c...@cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 1223 334506, Fax: +44 1223 334679
