I installed Perl 5.8 and with PPM installed DBI and ODBC. Being new to Perl I was happy how everything worked. Saving all my configuration steps I made a document detailing such for others to use. Upon reading my document someone installed 5.6 instead of 5.8 by mistake and used PPM to install DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP.
Another person installed Perl and used 5.8. DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP would not install and could not be found. The person with 5.6 uninstalled that and installed 5.8 to see what would happen. Desired packages would not install there, either. It was good fortune and coincidental this person installed 5.6, initially, since nothing would have worked and development could not have been done so rapidly. Also, I would not have looked so good to everyone :) We are now wondering if we must all go back to 5.6 so we can install DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP. LDAP data looks simple and I'm sure I could write a module to read it, but we need DB2 to work, and I would prefer not to write an LDAP module. Please advise. Thanks
