Re: Fork DBD::mysql

2017-09-01 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Hi Pali, I would very much like to address these issues and fix the UTF issue you so kindly had a patch for that people had problems with and do so in a way that doesn't require forking. I'm very sorry about this as I was in between jobs and distracted but am free next week to discuss this. I

DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-12 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Hi all, After talking to Pali and looking at how other drivers have handled the issue, the best way forward will be to deal with solving the UTF-8 issue correctly as was attempted in May. This will be a problem for some, but only due to having to been accustomed to a work-around that relies on

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-12 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
05:40:31 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: Hi all, After talking to Pali and looking at how other drivers have handled the issue, the best way forward will be to deal with solving the UTF-8 issue correctly as was attempted in May. This will be a problem for some, but only due to having to been accustomed

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-12 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
cpan.org wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2017 19:00:59 Darren Duncan wrote: On 2017-09-12 8:54 AM, Dan Book wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: Pali, Yes, I agree, we'll have to create a fork pre revert and stop accepting PRs How might we allow pe

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-14 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
On 9/13/17 9:31 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2017 11:32:36 Darren Duncan wrote: On 2017-09-12 11:05 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2017 19:00:59 Darren Duncan wrote: I strongly recommend that another thing happen, which is re-versioning DBD::mysql to 5.0.

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-15 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Hi Paul! (long time!) we need to make sure we have these cases accounted for and test coverage. regards, Patrick On 9/14/17 9:24 PM, Paul DuBois wrote: On Sep 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: MySQL server and its databases has some limitations, so reflect it: * it does not provide

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-09-18 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Pali, Great! Now we can start moving forward. Sorry if my responses have been intermittent - first week at new job. Regards, Patrick On 9/16/17 4:35 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: On Friday 15 September 2017 04:06:57 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: On 9/13/17 9:31 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: On

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-11-03 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
11:40:31 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: Hi all, After talking to Pali and looking at how other drivers have handled the issue, the best way forward will be to deal with solving the UTF-8 issue correctly as was attempted in May. This will be a problem for some, but only due to having to been accustom

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Pali, I have given you co-maintainership to DBD::mysql and permissions on the repo - let's go ahead and move forward. Thank you, Patrick On 11/3/17 11:17 AM, Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: Pali, Sorry, I wanted to give it time for people, plus have been very busy. I'm ready, j

Re: DBD::mysql path forward

2017-11-08 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Darren, Thank you. Yes, you are correct about prior discussions. How do we handle releases of having a DBD::mysql and a DBD::mysql2, in terms of people knowing "this is the old branch with no possibly breaking changes" vs. "this is the new branch" ? It's been pretty simple for the 14 years I'

DBD::mysql next steps

2017-11-10 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Greetings all! Michiel and I have been talking, weighing options of what course to take in dealing with moving forward-- with the goal of both offering both stability and the choice to have the latest functionality and bug fixes as well as give contributors the opportunity to be part of overall i

Re: DBD::mysql next steps

2017-11-13 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Me too! I look forward to getting pull requests reviewed and in the driver as well as get your UTF-8 work in per my previous email. We can use all the help we can get. regards, Patrick On 11/11/17 3:53 AM, p...@cpan.org wrote: On Friday 10 November 2017 10:13:55 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote

DBD::mysql 4.044 released!

2018-01-23 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
mysql since 2004 now, and look forward to future releases containing further improvements as discussed on the mailing lists and supporting new features in both MySQL and MariaDB. Thank  you! Patrick -- Patrick M. Galbraith Principal Platform Engineer, Oracle + Dyn http://patg.net p...@patg.

DBD::mysql 4.046 released

2018-02-09 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
hanks to the Pali Rohár, Ville Skyttä, Michiel Beijen, and of course the community! Have a great day! -- Patrick M. Galbraith Principal Platform Engineer, Oracle + Dyn http://patg.net p...@patg.net patrick.m.galbra...@oracle.com

Re: DBD::mysql 4.046 released

2018-02-09 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
Yes, I will look at this later today. On 2/9/18 5:34 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 05:20:25 -0500, "Patrick M. Galbraith" wrote: Greetings! I'm pleased to announce the release of DBD::mysql 4.046: * Use API function for reconnect; fixes compilation on

DBD::mysql 4.047 Released

2018-09-09 Thread Patrick M. Galbraith
ing The github repo can be found here: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::mysql Thank you for using DBD::mysql! Regards, Patrick -- Patrick M. Galbraith http://patg.net p...@patg.net