| merlyn | BrotherJack - that's a hard task |
| rindolf | perlygatekeeper: here? |
| merlyn | use Mysql was old school DBI/DBD is modern different levels of interface it'd be like converting from cobol to VBA might work, but who cares? |
| hobbs | BrotherJack: looks like someone did, but it went out of support last year |
| Necos | aren't the DBD::* usually backwards-compatible... |
| hobbs | BrotherJack: it's not like DBD::mysql is a _new_ thing, it's been the replacement to the mysql-module for at least 5 years |
| BrotherJack | merlyn: I understand that, but it still doesn't change the fact that I am now stuck with a lot of code that uses the old Mysql interface. |
| merlyn | Necos - that's not the issue yeah - so you should learn enough perl to rewrite it! or hire someone who knows that's your next step |
| nanonyme | hm, i wish this network would have dcc whitelisting like some i have seen would prevent those dcc attacks :( |
| BrotherJack | hobbs: be that as it may, I'm still largely screwed here because of the system(s) I have inherited that use Mysql; |
| bynari | So hire someone |
| merlyn | yes - so that code is at end-of-life you got your mileage out of those old cars time to buy a new car |
| BrotherJack | bynari: that is not an option; no budget. |
| merlyn | then your business is toast |
| bynari | You're out of luc then |
| merlyn | at least you have the source code |
| hobbs | BrotherJack: well, the port is rather trivial. Sit down with a perl book ;) |
| merlyn | and not just some binaries from $dead_business that's pretty cool |
| Necos | use Mysql... yucky |
| merlyn | so, hooray open source there |
| aydiosmio | sounds like something a little search and replace could fix in an hour |
| BrotherJack | hobbs: the problem is, I would have to start from scratch with perl. If I have to rewrite this junk, I am going to port it straight to PHP or C. |
| Necos | that's a fairly trivial patching issue for most of us here... |
| rindolf | BrotherJack: C? |
| Necos | PHP is just as bad lol |
| rindolf | BrotherJack: do you honestly want to write webapps in C? |
| BrotherJack | Necos: not really - PHP makes sense to me. Perl on the other hand, drives me up the wall... |
| lordceiphas | now im getting somewhere... open returns "permission denied", so i have to make this folder world writeable |
| PerlJam | BrotherJack: why is that? |