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It's coming, I think (Score:3, Interesting)
Tim Bunce is working on an Oracle::OCI module. I've never completely understood, but I believe this is Oracle's call level interface as opposed to the preprocessed Pro*C you usually have to use. If it's what I think it is, someone could write a DBD backend using this module (I think that's the plan) and you wouldn't need to install all that junk. I'm not sure, though, if Oracle::OCI needs to link a C library or not.
If OCI specifies the actual protocol over the wire, it should be completely possible to implement in 100% Perl. At work I've been wishing we could do that with Remedy, but I think you can only get at that system through the provided C library. (For which there is, fortunately, a Perl wrapper.)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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