Program::Approx

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Stowe
Well I guess it was going to happen sooner or later, consider : package Foo; use strict; use Text::Soundex; use File::Basename; use Devel::Symdump; use Dircon::Billing::AutoID; my $obj = Devel::Symdump-new(__PACKAGE__); no strict 'refs'; my %funcs = map { s/.*://; (soundex($_),\{$_} ) }

MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C code? I'm faced with converting a couple of apps that have MySQL

Re: MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-24 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:58:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C

Re: MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-24 Thread James Powell
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:58:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an app using the MySQL API and

RE: Komodo

2001-04-24 Thread David Irvine
--- Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, you wrote: I note that the Linux distribution of Kodomo contained complete distributions of Mozilla, Perl and Python. /me cancels the download, suggests Activestate acquire some Clue Isn't that a bit

frot the box

2001-04-24 Thread alex
the stuff has arrived, so we'll probably have a go at putting shiney new things in penderel tomorrow evening. if there's a time when this would inconvenience you, let me know and i'll make a proper schedule if need be. otherwise watch out for wall'd and irc announcements. alex -- here they

Re: frot the box

2001-04-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: the stuff has arrived, so we'll probably have a go at putting shiney new things in penderel tomorrow evening. if there's a time when this would inconvenience you, let me know and i'll make a proper schedule if need be. otherwise watch out for wall'd and irc

Re: frot the box

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: the stuff has arrived, so we'll probably have a go at putting shiney new things in penderel tomorrow evening. if there's a time when this would inconvenience you, let me know and i'll make a proper schedule if

Re: frot the box

2001-04-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: BOFH-fever, BOFH-fever, you've just got to do it ... quote: 'Lifes been so much easier since I linked /dev/st0 to /dev/null, not only does the nightly backup job run much quicker but I get Hi-8 tapes to use in my camcorder for free!' -- Robin Szemeti The box

Re: MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over, you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is probably just as difficult a task, given how much SQL can vary from product to

Perl Monger spotted in the wild

2001-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
Are you DJ Adams? http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014 Good, and depressing, article. Paul

perlismybitch.com

2001-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it. I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar) but simply couldn't be arsed. Paul