On Feb 26, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com> wrote:
>> Hello ActiveStaters, > > The commonly used term is actually Activator. :) Got it! > Yes, that is one reason. We then need to apply several patches to build > things correctly though (to statically link the client libs, deal with > missing SIGALARM on Windows, etc). > > We actually have all those changes, as we include DBD::Pg in all ActivePerl > builds; they would just need to be converted into the distroprefs format > used by the CPAN builders. It will take some time to do it, and hasn't > been a big priority because ActivePerl already contains whatever the latest > version of DBD::Pg was at the time of building AP. So this is really only > about updating DBD::Pg for older releases of AP. Oh, I didn't realize that DBD::Pg was shipped with ActivePerl. That certainly simplifies things. > This is different from DBD::mysql, which is not included in ActivePerl due > to GPL-only licensing. So it was more important to spend the extra time to > get it into PPM. Sure, that makes sense. Thanks for the quick response! David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
