Thanks for the quick reply! I think my greater question is how to
remove/uninstall any module. This all got started when I began working
through the Perl DBI book. The very first example program bombed when it hit
the ADO module. The module is missing something it needs -
Win32/OLE/Variant.pm. I can't think of a reason I'd want to install this on
a Solaris machine anyway, so for now all I want to do is rid myself of ADO.
On the other had, you can review and send patches to help improve
DBD::ADO, it is pure (some places ugly) perl code ... ;->
LOL on that one. I don't consider my perl skills strong enough to be a
contributor yet. Then again, everybody learns to walk the same way...
Thanks again, and perhaps you can follow up with some tips on getting rid of
unwanted Perl mods.
Regards,
Steve Starer
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas A. Lowery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:12 AM
To: Steve Starer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Module Administration question
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:07:25AM -0400, Steve Starer wrote:
> I am the perl administrator here, and new to both perl as a programming
> language, and as the site admin. I've got no problem getting modules. My
> question is how do I remove them? In particular, I'm in a Solaris site,
and
> had to install the DBD bundle and Sybase DBI. I ended up with a module
> useful mostly for win32, named DBD::ADO.
DBD::ADO installs with DBI (this may change soon), as does a number of
other pure perl drivers.
> Just removing it from the tree seemed to be insufficient. There doesn't
seem
> to be any way to remove it via the CPAN interactive shell. Any suggestions
> will be gratefully appreciated.
Currently if you want to remove it using CPAN, you'll need to remove DBI
... not a good solution.
If your reason is because CPAN reports a version difference, you can
either use CPAN to force install DBD::ADO, hack the version number in
DBD::ADO, or ignore it.
Tim Bunce is (DBI author) is considering removing the pure perl drivers
for DBI in favor of using Bundle::DBI.
On the other had, you can review and send patches to help improve
DBD::ADO, it is pure (some places ugly) perl code ... ;->
Tom
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