yep! perl6 won't like dbi, the API is not so hot, it does not exploit features of many dbengines and is not conveniently expandable. myODBC supplies a better API anyway. (dbi is cluttered with old cr*p like worthless "deprecated" booleans and decided that all databases function the same as MySQL especially when it comes to memory handling.) dbi is still labeled as "experimental" or "incomplete" and that it certainly is, even though it has been out since the first releases of Perl 5. This should tell you that no one is interested in continuing work on this module. dbi does have some nifty funcs like it's _ref funcs but other than that, it offers few advantages over MyODBC which advertises itself as a replacement for DBI anyway.

In reply to RE: DBI is dying??? by AgentM
in thread DBI Module for Windows by Anonymous Monk

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