FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Andrew Stanley [mailto:astanley AT cs.uml.edu]
> Sent: January 6, 2003 11:34 AM
> 
> (I hacked DBD::Sybase to look like DBD::FreeTDS, so I could have
> 2 different DBD::Sybase's co-existing)

[musing]

Several people have mentioned the need to use FreeTDS and Sybase's libraries
at the same time in Perl.  At present, that's only possible by using
DBD::Sybase for Sybase and DBD::ODBC or sybperl for FreeTDS.  In limited
cases, it may be possible to get away with manipulating @INC to manage two
DBD::Sybase modules, but almost no one wants the administration headaches
that are sure to follow.  

I wonder if there isn't/couldn't be a better way.  For example, could the
namespace and module name of DBD::Sybase be altered at configuration time?
Could we use Perl namespaces another way, to convert DBD::Sybase into, say,
DBD::FreeTDS::Sybase?  

Seems to me this could also be useful to test upgrades and patches.  

Andrew used hackery.  Is no mechanism available to make that unnecessary?  

--jkl


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