If DBI were part of the Perl distribution and there were "thin" drivers for Oracle, Postgres, etc, it'd be a big win for Perl. I don't necessarily like the jdbc api but it's nice to be able to get a jdk, get the jar you need for a particular backend (w/o regard to linking against client libs) and immediately start talking to the backend.
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Tim Bunce wrote: > > 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. -- Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | AIM: iankallen
