On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:39:30AM -0800, Stephen Keller wrote: > Hello all, Tim asked about making DBI part of the main Perl > distribution. I'm not sure this is such a great idea because > of the interdependencies between the DBD drivers and the DBI. > In the case of DB2 it can be a problem because IBM specifies > the version of DBI for a given version of the DBD driver. When > these don't match up, the driver doesn't always work correctly.
Why not, exactly? > Even if the DBI were part of the distribution, we'd still have > to install the DBD drivers, so I'm not sure that having DBI > already there buys very much. The number, and maturity, of pure-perl DBD's is rising. > While I like the idea of the DBI being part of the standard > distribution, I'd want control over which version got installed. > I'm not sure that's what you had in mind Tim. Especially, given > that you'd have to include multiple versions (or their diffs) in > the Perl distribution to support that level of control. I'd rather push the other way... driver authors need to write drivers the do-the-right-thing. Specifying particular versions of the DBI is a bit of a cop out. Tim.
