Janet123 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks ,, can I find a DBI prel module to work with perl version 5.004 , all the one I see require 5.005 and higher , I tried to install them however it fails once it checks the version of perl, can you please help. thanks so much.

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Re: DBI for old perl
by jobber (Sexton) on Mar 06, 2003 at 15:01 UTC
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      Beware

      Those older releases versions of DBI are not up to date.

      This means that they are not supported, have bugs and are missing features.

      If that's fine , you might have a problem finding the previous versions of database drivers that work for that particular DBI. And they might have bugs and be unsupported...

      If you really can't upgrade to 5.005 I wish you the best of luck with what seems like a difficult task.

      --
      clscott
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Re: DBI for old perl
by danichka (Hermit) on Mar 06, 2003 at 16:41 UTC

    jobber is right, CPAN does keep older versions which is very nice. However, I would look at 1.21. It looks like that is the last one that had require 5.004;

    It looks like there were quite a few changes in this one over older versions - that's why I would suggest trying it out.

    use Confession qw(free voluntary);
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      You are both mistaken. CPAN keeps what the AUTHOR tells CPAN to keep (PAUSE).

      BackPAN, on the other hand, has everything ;)(ZCAN)

      MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
      ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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