On Friday 01 September 2017 13:36:13 H.Merijn Brand wrote: > 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.
I already did it and also I CCed him in my first email in this thread. > 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
