Simon Oliver wrote: > > Most DBMS's have ODBC and/or JDBC drivers. Couldn't these > two drivers could be included to provide almost universal > access without the need for compilation of vendor specific > DBD's.
But isn't ODBC a C library that must be installed on the client to work? And doesn't JDBC depend on a Java installation? It's true that these are more generally available, but wouldn't you still have a compilation dependency external to the general Perl installation? I mean, something in the Perl module has got to make calls into these libraries. Stph
