On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:43:28 +0100, "Martin J. Evans" <martin.ev...@easysoft.com> wrote:
> Although the changes in the current DBI trunk don't amount to that much > there are 2 which I'd particularly like to be released - DBI->{attrs} > fix and tracing changes - specifically the latter. In addition changes > Tux made recently to fix an issue reported on perl monks is probably > worth seeing the light of day - at least in a dev release. There are +1 for the dev release (once the tests pass) Both Martin's work and my bug fix show small weaknesses that are addressed. My fix desperately needs a test case. I might add that it needs a well-documented test case. It took me several hours to find the week spot, where the error message was the hint. The piece of code however did move around a bit over the past few years, making it harder to spot the "why", which is where I feel less comfortable: did I now find a cure for all cases or is this just one of many possibilities and is the surrounding code fundamentally flawed. At this moment, I think Jens is the only person that can tell. > probably 2 issues in the way which are tests I added to reproduce bugs > reported on rt. I'm really sorry I've not had time to address the > actually issues reproduced with the tests for the rts but I'm unlikely > to be address them in the near future. If someone can fix the 2 issues > in the DBI test suite I'd really like to see at least a dev release. If > it doesn't happen it is not the end of the world by a long way but in > particular saying DBI_TRACE=DBD=x.log is worth it for me. However, it > might not make a lot of difference as I'm unsure right now how much > time I'll be able to put into DBI, DBD::ODBC and DBD::Oracle in the > near future. Making the DBI_TRACE stuff visible to "the world" enables DBD authors to implement back-end stuff and actually use it. > Thanks > Martin -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/