Robert wrote:
Greg Fischer/Bcbsri wrote:Is there a problem with ftp.esoftmatic.com?
I tried doing:
ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBI.ppd
per the instructions in an email here from Jeff Urlwin a month ago. The install fails, so I tried to ftp there manually. The ftp timed out, and I can't ping ftp.esoftmatic.com. Ping finds the name and IP address for ftp.esoftmatic.com but "Request times out".
We're a Java shop so I don't have Visual C++ or any C compiler to build them from source code.
Is there an alternate site where I can get the DBI and DBD::Oracle packages for Windows?
There was a not for prime time release there. I asked a question about it and it was removed but he didn't put the older 1.15 version back up. :-(
Yet another upgrade blues on Win XP.
The release notes accompanying activestate perl 5.8.4.810
say: "Perl 5.8 is not binary compatible with earlier releases of Perl. You have to recompile your XS modules."
At http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8.html I find:
DBD-Oracle 1.15 FAIL
Jeff Urlwin's ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com, mentioned in http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1904063 and http://dev.isystek.com/dbi/fom-serve/cache/173.html appears to be dead, and I read you correctly, even if it would be back up in the air, it would not carry the ppm anymore.
Right now I am downloading cygwin - this takes ages, I probably chose the wrong mirror - but I already read a message that it has difficulties compiling DBD::Oracle.
I could use some tips on how to proceed: - back to perl 5.6? - use cygwin perl instead ? (will it work ???) - a different site with a DBD distribution including the windows binaries? - install the 9.2 client from oracle ? (I'm connecting to a 8.1.7 instance - some commercial announcement suggested that 9.2 has perl support, but otn.oracle.com is not very clear about it).
Any suggestions/experiences welcome.
