Package: libdbd-oracle-perl Version: 1.23-1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Joost van Baal Installed-Size: 796 Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-19lenny2), perlapi-5.10.0, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), oracle-instantclient-basic, libstdc++5 Filename: lenny/libdbd-oracle-perl/libdbd-oracle-perl_1.23-1_amd64.deb Size: 319026 MD5sum: 3096466d249689d458f3e6e2c514ea19 SHA1: ba797ac7721127187c10c3569c073cef494d065b SHA256: b305ed31b9574caab39d3037df25df354a83ee70377e9b81a21b0d2c89b6d0de Section: perl Priority: optional Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Oracle/ Description: Perl access to Oracle databases for old oraperl scripts Oraperl is an extension to Perl which allows access to Oracle databases. . The original oraperl was a Perl 4 binary with Oracle OCI compiled into it. The Perl 5 Oraperl module described here is distributed with DBD::Oracle (a database driver what operates within DBI) and adds an extra layer over DBI method calls. The Oraperl module should only be used to allow existing Perl 4 oraperl scripts to run with minimal changes; any new development should use DBI directly. . The functions which make up this extension are described in the following sections. All functions return a false or undefined (in the Perl sense) value to indicate failure. You do not need to understand the references to OCI in these descriptions. They are here to help those who wish to extend the routines or to port them to new machines.