On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:08:17 +0200, p...@cpan.org wrote: > On Tuesday 29 August 2017 22:08:09 Dan Book wrote: > > Though the reversion was made with good intentions of preserving back > > compat in the short term, it was accompanied by a promise of reapplying the > > many important fixes that were reverted ( > > https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/compare/4.041...4.042 ) as well as > > re-adding a correct utf8 encoding option, as it is still necessary to fix > > this broken behavior one way or another. Since nothing has happened, > > forking may be the only reasonable option. We are currently version pinned > > to 4.042 as "upgrading" to 4.043 would be a massive regression in our > > codebase. > > > > -Dan > > Ok, I understood Dan's email as there are already users who cannot > upgrade to the last DBD::mysql version (where revert happened) as it > contains bugs... > > And due to big silent, I would say that DBD::mysql is really dead.
I doubt that. Maybe the active maintainer is on holiday. It is the
season you know.
June is indeed a few months ago, but it was still this year. NOT dead.
Please try to contact Michiel first.
Author: Michiel Beijen <michiel.bei...@gmail.com> 2017-06-29 11:25:48
Committer: Michiel Beijen <michiel.bei...@gmail.com> 2017-06-29 11:30:07
Tags: 4.043
Parent: 1ece6b4b8630a1cf348373aa41cbe5f748dcd62a (Merge pull request #137 from
pali/versions)
Branch: remotes/origin/master
Follows: 4.042
Precedes:
New version 4.043 - the same as 4.041
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