[rt-devel] Mysql DBI error on make install

[Alex Krohn]

Hi Jesse,

> > I have a feeling you'll see a lot of these errors as I don't think this
> > version of RT has been tested with an older driver. 
> 
> Nope. And I'm not really interested in porting RT to out of date versions
> of DBD::mysql, when the current versions are fully backward compatible.
> The next version of RT will specify a minimum DBD::mysql version.

Totall fair. Just to warn you though, as someone who distributes perl
applications for a living, when we first distributed our SQL library
which used dbname=foo;host=foo, we found about 20% of users ran into
connection problems. It was much higher then I would have thought.

But I don't think this is really an issue in your situation as you
pretty much require the ability to install perl modules and have root on
the server. We were dealing with people trying to install on virtuals
and upgrading mysql drivers were not an option.

We've also found a large number of users still use perl 5.004. ;)

Cheers,

Alex

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