Hi All I'm currently writing a db application based on Oracle with Perl batch processing, and am intending to implement a GUI front end. Perl/Tk looks like a possible option. I'm reasonably new to Perl but feel confident enough in it to create a functional app, even if the code is not written in an optimal manner. I have no experience in Tk. Is this combination satisfactory for db apps? Is there a lot of hand-coding that is taken forgranted by Java's swing/awt. Is there a good Tk reference? O'Reilly's "Learning Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces with Perl" get mixed reviews on Amazon. Andrew Page's "Programming Perl/TK" has no reviews at all. Would I be better off with a Tcl/Tk book, and to ignore the Tcl part?
Also, I am considering porting the app to an opensource db. Because MySQL does not support transactions, it is out of the running. PostGres supposedly supports stored procedures and triggers, two features that I use in the Oracle version. I'd appreciate hearing some feed back from people's experiences, partiularly in the areas of: integration with dbi, installation issues, reliability etc. If anyone has two cents to offer, perhaps they can backchannel me as this is slightly OT. Plus: have people written commercial packages with dbi? Can you point me to web pages that either contain reviews, issues or any other kings of info. Thanks Dan
