February 5, 2003
Another permutation.
After reading my previous blatherings on trying to get the DB_File module installed on my Qube in order to use Movable Type, gentle reader Peter Wilkinson took pity on my soul. He offers this alternative to the Perl module hell I’ve been wading into of late:
"I just read your note about DB_File being a bit of a hassle to get going, I ran into similar problems and decided to port Movable Type to use SQLite as its database. If you are able to install DBD::SQLite from CPAN on the Qube I’d be more than happy to send you the small mods I made to Movable Type (about 6 lines in all). I’ve heard from Ben Trott that SQLite support will be in the next version so upgrading from my patched version to the next real one should be painless — at least thats the hope."
Painless. One can hope, can’t he? If nothing else, this sounds like an interesting option. My only question to Peter was whether or not SQLite has a Perl version dependency like DB_File does. That’s where my tale started getting convoluted before, as I need to wedge in a new version of Perl onto the Qube in order for DB_File to install. If I can just keep running my older version of Perl, there’s less chance of me breaking the Qube’s admin scripts. Peter mentioned that SQLite requires another module called DBI. The current version of DBI says it needs Perl 5.005_03, which is definitely fresher than what I currently have. However, SQLite doesn’t really need the most recent version of DBI, so we may be all right. My, this certainly is a twisted path we’re gotten on, isn’t it?
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