Congrats guys - glad this finally came about.
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Darren Duncan wrote:
All,
I am pleased to announce that DBD::SQLite (Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI
Driver) version 1.20 has been released on CPAN.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-SQLite/
This follows on the heels of 10 developer releases released starting 2009
March 27th (Adam "Alias" Kennedy has been doing release management). The
previous production release of DBD::SQLite was version 1.14 about 18 months
ago.
Improvements in 1.20 over 1.14 include:
* Updated the bundled SQLite library from v3.4.2 to v3.6.12, which carries
many new features as well as bug fixes.
* Added support for user-defined collations.
* Added ->column_info().
* Resolved all but a handful of the 60+ RT items.
* Many bug fixes and minor enhancements.
* Added more tests, large refactoring of tests.
* Minimum dependencies are now Perl 5.006 and DBI 1.57.
See http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ADAMK/DBD-SQLite-1.20/Changes as well as
http://sqlite.org/changes.html for details.
Now it is especially important, since automatic updates from CPAN such as
with the CPAN/CPANPLUS utilities, would now be pulling this new 1.20 by
default, ...
Please bash the hell out of the latest DBD::SQLite and report any outstanding
bugs on RT. Test your dependent or compatible projects with it, which
includes
any DBMS-wrapping or object persistence modules, and applications.
If you want in to DBD::SQLite development, then join the following email/IRC
forums which MST created (the mailing list, I am administrating):
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbd-sqlite
#dbd-sqlite on irc.perl.org
And the canonical version control is at:
http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/DBD-SQLite/
Patches welcome. Ideas welcome. Testing welcome. Whining to /dev/null.
Regarding near future plans: Now, the current 1.20 uses the pristine
several-dozen SQLite library source files, same as 1.14 did. While reality
may be different, I believe that the next major planned change to DBD::SQLite
is to substitute in the "amalgamation" version, which combines all the SQLite
source files into a single file; the amalgamation is the recommended form for
users according to the SQLite core developers. See
http://sqlite.org/download.html for a description of that. Meanwhile there
should be another stable release with any bug fixes for 1.20 to come out
first. Any other major changes or features for DBD::SQLite are expected to
come out separately from and after the stabilized switch to the amalgamation
sources.
Please do not reply to me directly with your responses. Instead send them to
the forums or file with RT as is appropriate.
Thank you. -- Darren Duncan
