Re: Oraperl maintenance
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 10:43:31 +0000
Message-ID: <CEF72s.3KK_at_ig.co.uk>
In article <1993Oct4.111251.13269_at_infodev.cam.ac.uk> cj10_at_cus.cam.ac.uk (C.J. Jardine) writes:
>Some while ago, Kevin Stock lost his job and went off the net. > >Since then, Oraperl has not been maintained. >
In case anyone does not know, just as Kevin left he posted patch 4. This is available from ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/perl/db/oraperl
>I now have a problem. I find that Oraperl won't work for me if >I try to process a SELECT yielding more than 16 columns. > >I have used Oraperl's excellent debugging facilities to isolate >the problem. It comes down to a correct OCI call giving the >wrong answer. I.e. it's Oracle's fault. > >I have reported the problem to Oracle as a bug in 7.0.12 on >SunOs. Doubtless, in the fullness of time, they will fix it. >Meanwhile, I am stuck. I will have to modify Oraperl to program >round Oracle's bug. > >The point of this posting is to discover if Kevin Stock is back >on the net, and if he isn't, what we are going to do about it. > >Kevin - Are you there?? >
Not to my knowledge. I'm sure he would have contacted the people working on DBperl if he was back on the net. When posting patch 4 he said:
: As I no longer have access to the net, please do not try to send me : mail. If you really want, you can write to me at the address below, but : please enclose an International Reply Coupon if you want a reply. I : won't have access to a system running Oracle, so I probably won't be : able to give you much help. : Kevin Stock : 5 rue de la Liberation : 78660 ABLIS : France >Oraperl users - If Kevin is still out of touch, what are WE>going to do to maintain and develop Oraperl?? >
I've just posted the following in reply to a message in comp.lang.perl:
| Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
| Subject: Re: When will SQLperl be out?
| References: <1993Oct4.211602.24212_at_newsgate.sps.mot.com>
|
| In article <1993Oct4.211602.24212_at_newsgate.sps.mot.com> kramer_at_ash.sps.mot.com writes:
| >Someone over on comp.database.oracle was lamenting the loss of
| >Kevin Stock as a resource. He was wondering who will support
| >OraPerl now. I replied that SQLperl is currently under development.
| >
| >Can anyone out there tell me the status of this development?
| >
| I guess you're thinking of DBperl. The DBperl effort is still alive and
| kicking after just over a year.
|
| I'm currently the editor of the draft specification. The spec is being
| developed and reviewed on a mailing list of over 50 members (maybe 10
| of whom are active).
|
| We are about half way through the current review cycle and it's looking
| VERY good (no hint of bias there :-). To give you some idea of the scope
| and detail of the spec, it's just topped 100Kb (~50 pages).
|
| I hope to release a stable version 1.0 spec to the net by December.
|
| An archive of all known database interfaces/utilities for perl (including
| ingres, oracle, sybase, unify, postgres, informix and interbase) is
| maintained in ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/perl/db. This is also the home of the
| DBperl API specification.
|
| As for oraperl, it's very mature and stable in it's current form (patch
| level 4). Kevin was not planning to make any more releases until he
| could develop a DBperl conformant version.
|
| Unless someone else steps in to support oraperl, it's likely that I'll
| develop it into one of the first full DBperl implementations. I can't
| see this happening before mid '94. :-(
|
| >kramer_at_cs1.sps.mot.com | From there to here,
| >Jim Kramer | from here to there,
| >Motorola Compound Semiconductor - 1 | funny things
| >2100 E. Elliot Rd. M/D EL609 | are everywhere.
| >Tempe, Arizona 85284 USA |
| >(602)897-3051 | - Dr. Seuss
|
| Regards,
| Tim Bunce.
>
>Charles Jardine. University of Cambridge (UK) Computing Service.
Much as I'd like to, I simply don't have the time to maintain the current version of oraperl. We use it here for some major applications and I'd be very grateful if someone could support it!
Regards,
Tim Bunce.
Received on Tue Oct 05 1993 - 11:43:31 CET