thanks a bunch, Jim
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > All, > > I am pleased to announce that DBD::SQLite (Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI > Driver) > version 1.20 has been released on CPAN. > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-SQLite/ > > This follows on the heels of 10 developer releases released starting 2009 > March > 27th (Adam "Alias" Kennedy has been doing release management). The previous > production release of DBD::SQLite was version 1.14 about 18 months ago. > > Improvements in 1.20 over 1.14 include: > > * Updated the bundled SQLite library from v3.4.2 to v3.6.12, which carries > many new features as well as bug fixes. > * Added support for user-defined collations. > * Added ->column_info(). > * Resolved all but a handful of the 60+ RT items. > * Many bug fixes and minor enhancements. > * Added more tests, large refactoring of tests. > * Minimum dependencies are now Perl 5.006 and DBI 1.57. > > See http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ADAMK/DBD-SQLite-1.20/Changes as well as > http://sqlite.org/changes.html for details. > > Now it is especially important, since automatic updates from CPAN such as with > the CPAN/CPANPLUS utilities, would now be pulling this new 1.20 by default, > ... > > Please bash the hell out of the latest DBD::SQLite and report any outstanding > bugs on RT. Test your dependent or compatible projects with it, which > includes > any DBMS-wrapping or object persistence modules, and applications. > > If you want in to DBD::SQLite development, then join the following email/IRC > forums which MST created (the mailing list, I am administrating): > > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbd-sqlite > > #dbd-sqlite on irc.perl.org > > And the canonical version control is at: > > http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/DBD-SQLite/ > > Patches welcome. Ideas welcome. Testing welcome. Whining to /dev/null. > > Regarding near future plans: Now, the current 1.20 uses the pristine > several-dozen SQLite library source files, same as 1.14 did. While reality > may > be different, I believe that the next major planned change to DBD::SQLite is > to > substitute in the "amalgamation" version, which combines all the SQLite source > files into a single file; the amalgamation is the recommended form for users > according to the SQLite core developers. See http://sqlite.org/download.html > for a description of that. Meanwhile there should be another stable release > with any bug fixes for 1.20 to come out first. Any other major changes or > features for DBD::SQLite are expected to come out separately from and after > the > stabilized switch to the amalgamation sources. > > Please do not reply to me directly with your responses. Instead send them to > the forums or file with RT as is appropriate. > > Thank you. -- Darren Duncan > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Jim Dodgen j...@dodgen.us _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
