Well, with that stance, somewhere C libraries are still required somewhere to get a DBD driver compiled. However, I would find the argument more convincing if it'd s/Proxy/JDBC/ -- i.e. using DBD::JDBC seems to be a reasonable way to connect to oracle, postgres, etc with no oracle OCI or postgres client libraries installed anywhere.
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Tim Bunce wrote: > DBD::Proxy is bundled with DBI. It's a "thin" driver for any DBD. > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:43:43PM -0800, Ian Kallen wrote: > > > > 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. -- Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | AIM: iankallen
