What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread TIDWELL, GARY
Hi all, we are currently using DBD::ORACLE 1.16 and DBI 1.46, and I'm having a tough time trying to determine if either of these are still supported by the open source community. All help is appreciated. Thanks, Gary

Re: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 23/01/12 14:13, TIDWELL, GARY wrote: Hi all, we are currently using DBD::ORACLE 1.16 and DBI 1.46, and I'm having a tough time trying to determine if either of these are still supported by the open source community. All help is appreciated. Thanks, Gary DBI 1.46 isn't even on cpan now

RE: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread John Scoles
I would have to agree with Martin. The bigest jump, code-wise was the jump between 16~17 so you are very much out of luck if you want to get anything fixed in 16 or eariler. I you update to 17 first and see what happens you will get a good idea if you can update any futher. I also depends on

Re: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread Furst, Carl
If I remember what the docs told me (we recently went through an upgrade from 9i to 10g), any thing pre 1.26 can work with anything up to 9i. 1.26 and later can work 9i and 10g however 11g and 12 will not work unless you upgrade further. I THINK I have that right.. However the DBD::Oracle documen

Re: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread Furst, Carl
I'm sorry I should clarify.. When I say "work" I mean you can build it against that version of the OCI. What you should do is see what the highest version of the DBD::Oracle can build against your OCI client. Carl Furst On 1/23/12 10:32 AM, "Furst, Carl" wrote: >If I remember what the doc

RE: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread TIDWELL, GARY
Thanks for the quick response. Sounds like you've answered my question, but I will go ahead and explain my situation. We are using the old versions because we never had an issue or moved to a version of Perl or Oracle that needed us to change. If we did we would have upgraded at that time. W

Re: What is the oldest community supported versions for PERL DBI and DBD::ORACLE?

2012-01-23 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 23/01/12 15:36, TIDWELL, GARY wrote: Thanks for the quick response. Sounds like you've answered my question, but I will go ahead and explain my situation. We are using the old versions because we never had an issue or moved to a version of Perl or Oracle that needed us to change. If we did