The DBI no longer supports Perl <= 5.004

Perl 5.004_04 is quite buggy relative to, say, 5.005_03 or later.

The DBI officially doesn't support Perl 5.004 any more.

So, unless someone sends me a tested patch, I'll state here
that DBI 1.20 is that last version of DBI that'll work with 5.004.
Future releases will explictly require 5.005_03 or later.

That's not too bad as DBI 1.20 has proven to be a very stable release.

Tim.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:05:47PM +0000, Keith Marshall wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm using Perl 5.004_04, not ActivePerl, and changing Perl
> version is not a trivial issue. For numerous reasons it is also easier
> if I am able to build the module from source.

> For info: 1.20 appears to be working OK so far, built from the source
> tarball downloaded direct from a CPAN mirror, so it must be that
> something in 1.201 broke with 5.004_04 (possibly just on Win32 - I
> haven't tried on a Unix platform).
> 
> (although I'm still having trouble with the MySQL DBD tests, but that's
> another issue I hope..)
> 
> Keith.

• The DBI no longer supports Perl <= 5.004 by Tim Bunce