https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650180
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650180#c0 Summary: Remove Npgsql from Mono distribution Classification: Mono Product: Mono: Class Libraries Version: 2.6.x Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Sys.Data AssignedTo: [email protected] ReportedBy: [email protected] QAContact: [email protected] Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12 It seems the Npgsql shipped with mono is seriously out of date. This is confusing and can cause sort-of-bugs because you expect something to work based on Npgsql docs, but in reality there are behavior differences that you may not notice until quite a while later. E.g. the connection string parameter ENCODING has been obsolete in official Npgsql since Npsql 2.0 (september 2008) but the version in mono 2.6, 2.8 and master still has the code that uses ENCODING (instead of always using UTF-8). This can cause garbled data that you may not notice until quite some time later. Plus support for ADO.NET 2 is missing, and supposedly loads of bugfixing. What is actually the benefit of having Npgsql included like this? It seems to me that I could just as easily get the official version, and with more awareness of what version I am then actually using. So it should either be updated, or removed. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ mono-bugs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-bugs
