[Catalyst] ActivePerl DBI and Catalyst

[Lampert, Hugh]

I received an e-mail from Jan Dubois of ActiveState regarding the
problem with DBI and Catalyst.  He wants a small test case that he can
use to test the ActiveState implementation of DBI.  Unfortunately, I
have neither the time or the expertise to unwind my Catalyst application
sufficiently to provide him with a test case, as my app is a test case
itself and intimately married with SQL Server.  Is there anyone who is a
Catalyst Pro (and is interested in smooth Catalyst operation on the
Win32 platform) who can send him some test case information? 

-- Hugh


-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Dubois [mailto:jand at ActiveState.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:13 AM
To: Lampert, Hugh
Subject: Re: ActivePerl DBI and Catalyst


On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:52:41 -0500, "Lampert, Hugh"
<Hugh.Lampert at lbbwus.com> wrote:

Hello Hugh,

>I'm impressed that ActiveState is interested in solving this issue! 
>However, please excuse me if I take this opportunity to say that the 
>inability to restart the debugger using the R command is a far bigger 
>problem for me (which I've reported many times on the ActiveState bug 
>tracking system), as I must continually quit the debugger instead and 
>lose all my run-time variables! (something about "your vendor has not 
>defined POSIX macro _SC_OPEN_MAX"...)  This happens even with build 
>820.

I'll see if I can bump up the priority of this a little...

>But anywho, I was using build 819 which I had installed over Build 817

This may actually already be the problem:  To allow updating of bundled
modules with PPM4 we had to change the order of lib and site/lib in
@INC, which happened in 817.90.  That means you should not install 818
or any later version on top of 817 or earlier because you will end up
with older modules in site/lib that will shadow the newer modules in
lib.

ActivePerl 819 does ship with DBI 1.52, which should work fine.  The PPM
repository does have 1.53, so installing it via PPM should give you the
latest.

>which I had installed over build 815.... I always try to install the 
>latest PPM's from ActiveState where available, however you guys are (or

>were) way behind with the Catalyst modules.  I probably got the DBI and

>DBD::ADO modules from the University of Winnipeg
>repository(http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/) because they seem to 
>have more of an interest in keeping up-to-date Catalyst modules around.
>
>Since I forced an install of DBI 1.53 from CPAN I haven't had any 
>issues.  I've since upgraded to build 820 and still no issues so far 
>(however I'm still using the DBI 1.53 from CPAN).

Do you have a small test case that would allow me to see if your problem
still exists with DBI 1.5201 in 820, or DBI 1.53 from PPM?

Cheers,
-Jan

PS: The reason that ActivePerl 820 has DBI 1.52 plus some patches is
that 1.53 has an incompatibility with DBD-Sybase.
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