Re^4: How to write test scripts depending on DBI

Thanks for the clarifications. That's much clearer.

Who cares. The installer handles all that for you. The question makes no sense anyway. A sensible driver for one purpose is not sensible for another. A particular driver that's sensible today won't be sensible tomorrow.

Well yes those are all fair points. Except that:

1.) When you install DBI you are only guaranteed to get the drivers that come with DBI. None of those are much use for real work. So what puzzles is why so many machines would have DBI but not "real" (highly subjective term) drivers. The arguments are likely to be different for those that happen to CPAN testers machines (my sample) but I am still surprised at the lack of "real" drivers.

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Re^5: How to write test scripts depending on DBI by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 05, 2009 at 21:49 UTC
why so many machines would have DBI but not "real" (highly subjective term) drivers None at all? No DBD::mysql, DBD::Pg, DBD::Oracle, DBD::Sqlite, DBD::ODBC, or DBD::Sybase? That is odd.	[reply]
Re^6: How to write test scripts depending on DBI by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Oct 05, 2009 at 22:41 UTC
That is odd. Precisely. I'll take that as vindication. ;-)	[reply]