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List:       solid
Subject:    Re: DBDSolid 0.12a
From:       Karl Bauer <karl () viator ! com>
Date:       1999-08-05 23:28:44
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Joe,

I'm eager to try out this new DBD module but I can't find it on CPAN. Can you
please advise me further on when it might appear?

Thanks,

Karl Bauer

Joe Slagel wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> I've put together a new release of DBD::Solid, a DBD module
> written by
> Thomas Wenrich to access the Solid Embedded Engine.  It
> should be available
> at CPAN, the perl module archive.
>
> Tim Bunce's DBI module is *the* standard way to access a
> number of
> different databases from perl.  FYI, DBD::Solid is a driver
> code that enables
>  Perl 5.003 and 5.004 to access the Solid RDBMS via the DBI
> module
> (you will need the code for the latest release of DBI and
> DBD::Solid).
>
> Since there hasn't been much interest by anyone else in
> keeping it up to
> date, and we've already made a number of changes to keep it
> working, we
> thought it would be nice to release our changes as a new
> version.  In the
> future we'll do our best to try to fix problems/update it as
> quick as
> possible.
>
> Keep in mind that I've only been able to test it on a Linux
> 2.0.36 system.  Solid has
> been nice enough to provide me all of the library names for
> 2.3/3.0 systems that they
> support but I certainly haven't been able to try them all!
> I'll try to help with the
> problems that people will encounter
>
> Have Fun,
>
> Joe & Everyone at Geospiza
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Changes:
>     This version now links correctly to Solid 3.0:
>
> Tested using:
>         * Red Hat Linux, with kernel 2.0.36
>           perl5.004_04
>           Solid 3.0
>
> The source of DBD::Solid version 0.12 is available from
>
>      CPAN (authors/id/SLAGEL/DBD-Solid-0.12.tar.gz)
>
>      You will also need:
>         * Perl (of course!), Version 5.003 or better
>         * the most recent DBI driver module (currently V
> 0.92)
>         * the Solid development system (2.3/3.0)
>         * a Solid database server
>
> Information about the SOLID database can be found via
>
>         http://www.solid.fi/
>      or http://www.solidtech.com/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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