On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:41:19 -0400, Ralph Doncaster <ralphdoncas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/09, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:21:05 -0400, Ralph Doncaster > > <ralphdoncas...@gmail.com> 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 ... -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
