Re: [libdbi-users] New API?

2010-01-23 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Toby Thain was heard to say: > I think the deprecation is progressive because all in all it is > better if users always specify their instance explicitly. Hidden > global data has proven to be a liability in many such instances > (strtok(), errno, ...) This is certainly the rationale behind the

Re: [libdbi-users] New API?

2010-01-22 Thread Toby Thain
On 22-Jan-10, at 9:19 PM, Vikram Noel Ambrose wrote: > Markus Hoenicka wrote: >> The older versions (dbi_initialize, dbi_conn_new and dbi_shutdown) >> are >> now implemented on top of these functions, using a single static >> instance >> handle. >> > > Then why should those functions be depre

Re: [libdbi-users] New API?

2010-01-22 Thread Vikram Noel Ambrose
Markus Hoenicka wrote: > The older versions (dbi_initialize, dbi_conn_new and dbi_shutdown) are > now implemented on top of these functions, using a single static instance > handle. > Then why should those functions be deprecated? I'm sure the majority of users do not have such peculiar requir

[libdbi-users] New API?

2010-01-21 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Vikram Noel Ambrose writes: > I just built libdbi and libdbi-drivers from svn. When recompiling my > application, I got a warning saying, dbi_initialize, dbi_conn_new and > dbi_shutdown has been deprecated. > > I think the docs online are out of data: > http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/docs/p

[libdbi-users] New API?

2010-01-21 Thread Vikram Noel Ambrose
I just built libdbi and libdbi-drivers from svn. When recompiling my application, I got a warning saying, dbi_initialize, dbi_conn_new and dbi_shutdown has been deprecated. I think the docs online are out of data: http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/docs/programmers-guide/reference-core.html What are