Re: ANN - DBD::SQLite version 1.20

Congrats guys - glad this finally came about.

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Darren Duncan 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
>
>