DBI 1.20_1 (TEST RELEASE) available for PPM (ActivePerl) at www.xmlproj.com/PPM repository.
To install set your repository to above address and then issue command ppm install DBI-1_201 Otherwise you can install with... ppm install http://www.xmlproj.com/PPM/DBI-1_201.ppd What the letter cases. Ilya Sterin -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bunce To: Graham Barr; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tim Bunce Sent: 1/10/02 3:29 PM Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DBI 1.20_1 (TEST RELEASE) On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:15:49PM +0000, Graham Barr wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:45:31PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > After more than four months (in which I've moved home and family > > to Ireland) I'm very pleased to be able to make a release at last. > > It is test a beta/test release though, as there are quite a few > > changes that need testing and some loose ends that need tying before > > a full release. I hope to release 1.21 before the end of January. > > That's more likely to happen if you help test this release for me. > > (Then I can focus on the rather neglected DBD::Oracle and Oracle::OCI.) > > > > > > file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.201.tar.gz > > Whoops, CPAN will not treat that as beta as the _ got lost. :( > > This happens if you use VERSION_FROM and have > > $VERSION = 1.20_1; Sigh. And using "1.20_1", as I did originally, caused problems elsewhere. > The work-ariound I normally use is to specify DISTVNAME=DBI-1.20_1 > on the make dist command line "Ah well" as they say over here. 'Tis done now. I'm officially on holiday now so I don't much care either way :-) In practice I imagine it'll just get more testing that it otherwise would :) Tim.
