> > Levine, Peter W wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The web page for Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC brige states that no client side > > driver manager is required. It states that unixODBC is available for a > > driver manager if that is desired. However I thought that > DBD:ODBC required > > a driver manager? > > > > May be a case of the docs not matching current reality. > > When the bridge was started there was no reliable open odbc 3 DM about, > so the bridge was designed to mimic a driver manager. Now unixODBC is > there its not required (though it still can) to do the extra functions. > However since then DBD::ODBC has now stated that it required a driver > manager (for good reason IMHO, though I am biased :-). So all the above > statements are true to a extent.
It's not 100% required from the DBD::ODBC perspective, as there is still support in Makefile.PL for building against specific drivers, however, it *is* 100% recommended. In the future I'll entertain less patches/fix requests for those NOT using a driver manager. There are too many #ifdefs in there that do things that are really the driver managers job (i.e. mapping ODBC 3.x calls to 2.x calls, etc). I'm not going to intentionally remove support for building and linking directly to drivers, but I am not specifically testing that either. Regards, Jeff
