Re: [svn:dbi] r13334 - dbi/trunk

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:50 +0100, Martin Evans
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:12:16AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> >> Author: hmbrand
> >> New Revision: 13334
> >>
> >> Modified:
> >>    dbi/trunk/Changes
> >>    dbi/trunk/DBI.xs
> >>    dbi/trunk/DBIXS.h
> >>    dbi/trunk/Driver_xst.h
> >>    dbi/trunk/Perl.xs
> >>    dbi/trunk/dbipport.h
> >>
> >> Log:
> >> Updated dbipport.h to Devel::PPPort 3.19
> > 
> > Authors of compiled drivers: please test this by building the curent svn
> > head version, *installing it*, and then doing a fresh build of their
> > drivers against the newly installed DBI.
> > 
> > Please let us know about either failures or successes, including the
> > output of perl -V.
> > 
> > Thanks! (And thanks to H.Merijn Brand for the update.)
> > 
> > Tim.
> 
> Works fine for me with latest DBD::ODBC, Linux and Perl 5.8.8. I will
> try 5.10 later.
> Should driver maintainers be doing something similar with Devel::PPPort?

Preferably yes, because you will be able to support newer versions of
perl with less chance of failure

I myself try to keep Devel::PPPort generated files really up-to-date
for all my XS modules.

If you do have XS modules,

$ perl -MDevel::PPPort -e'Devel::PPPort::WriteFile ("ppport.h")'
$ perl ppport.h --compat-version=5.8.1

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