On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:08:39AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:43:41AM -0800, David Dyck wrote:
> >
> > DBI::Format comes with
> > This causes the older DBI::Format to be used, and CPAN.pm
> > to report that an upgrade is in order
> >
> > Shouldn't both of these packages (DBI and DBI-Shell) install
> > DBI::Format in the same location?
>
> It's a side effect of the fact that the DBI-Shell-11.9 distribution
> is pure-perl.
When you install the newer version use make install UNINST=1
It will take care of the problem.
> > Could not eval '
> > package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
> > no strict;
> >
> > local $DBI::Format::SQLMinus::VERSION;
> > $DBI::Format::SQLMinus::VERSION=undef; do {
> > $DBI::Format::SQLMinus::VERSION =
> > }; $DBI::Format::SQLMinus::VERSION
> > ' in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.0/DBI/Format/SQLMinus.pm: syntax
>error at (eval 83) line 8, at EOF
I've the version numbers fixed, for the modules. I'm going to bump the
version up so cpan isn't confused.
> It turned out that Tom had used a bunch of recent perl features that
> would have meant the DBI would no longer pass tests on many systems
> (although some would be okay after installing some more modules).
> So at the last minute I opted not to include the newer DBI::Shell.
I've pulled the IO::Tee stuff out of Shell.pm and made it a plug-in. This
should allow it to work as the standard DBI distro ...
Upload the new version tonight.
Tom
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Thomas A. Lowery
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