mjevans

• Website: www.martin-evans.me.uk

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• Posted The Perl Community - a mixed bag of sometimes intollerance and sometimes fantastic help to mjevans

  I've had occassions to post a post like this a number of times in the past over a lot of years but I've resisted until now. I have little experience of other programming languages in forums/IRC/blogs etc recently because these days I've largely written Perl and PL/SQL but in the past before the…

• Commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.
  If this distribution contains daglem's pull request re DRCP and the others then the CHANGES file seems to be missing all of them. The tests pass for me with Oracle InstantClient 12.1.0.1 to Oracle 12.1.0.2. I'd love to see a...

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• Peter Rabbitson commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.

  @kd Great stuff! And great seeing @mjevans around here as well!

  Minor nit: your choice of lower-than-latest-dev release version is somewhat suboptimal. A surprisingly large amount of pre-smokers operate over the moral equivalent of:

  `cpanm --look --dev DBD::Oracle`

  As you can see your version is not being picked up as it is lower than @mjevans' older 1.75_2.

  Cheers!

• Dean commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.

  Smoking by cpantesters is almost entirely pointless for two reasons:

  - the Oracle Client SDK has to be downloaded and installed (requires an oracle.com account, but is "free" as in beer). there are some random websites that have it for download, avoiding the aforementioned account, but...
  - an actual Oracle database needs to be installed to test against

  There is an official Docker image of the Oracle database... but it requires injecting an oracle database installer file (even the free one from oracle.com... which again requires an account).

  So the smokers will …

• kd commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.

  mjevans: yes you're right the changelog is isnconsistent with what's in the release. I'll trawl through the commits and update it some time really soon.

  ribasushi: thanks. Almost all not my work. Although I can take responsibility for exposing the bug that prompted all this. I'll fix the version numbering when I update the trial release and mangle the changelog. As Dean notes it's of little practical consequence, but best to do things properly.

• Peter Rabbitson commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.

  > as Dean notes it's of little practical consequence, but best to do things properly.

  I don't want to publicize it too much, but https://travis-ci.org/Perl5/DBIx-Class/jobs/390708515#L441-L462 ( DBIC is not the only user afaik )

• Dean commented on DBD::Oracle Trial release.

  I took that as inspiration for https://travis-ci.org/ByteFoundryAU/DBD-Oracle

  Thanks Peter