Re: next DBI release

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:43:28 +0100, "Martin J. Evans"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Although the changes in the current DBI trunk don't amount to that much 
> there are 2 which I'd particularly like to be released - DBI->{attrs} 
> fix and tracing changes - specifically the latter. In addition changes 
> Tux made recently to fix an issue reported on perl monks is probably 
> worth seeing the light of day - at least in a dev release. There are

+1 for the dev release (once the tests pass)

Both Martin's work and my bug fix show small weaknesses that are
addressed. My fix desperately needs a test case. I might add that it
needs a well-documented test case. It took me several hours to find the
week spot, where the error message was the hint. The piece of code
however did move around a bit over the past few years, making it harder
to spot the "why", which is where I feel less comfortable: did I now
find a cure for all cases or is this just one of many possibilities and
is the surrounding code fundamentally flawed. At this moment, I think
Jens is the only person that can tell.

> probably 2 issues in the way which are tests I added to reproduce bugs 
> reported on rt. I'm really sorry I've not had time to address the 
> actually issues reproduced with the tests for the rts but I'm unlikely 
> to be address them in the near future. If someone can fix the 2 issues 
> in the DBI test suite I'd really like to see at least a dev release. If 
> it doesn't happen it is not the end of the world by a long way but in 
> particular saying DBI_TRACE=DBD=x.log is worth it for me. However, it 
> might not make a lot of difference as I'm unsure right now how much 
> time I'll be able to put into DBI, DBD::ODBC and DBD::Oracle in the
> near future.

Making the DBI_TRACE stuff visible to "the world" enables DBD authors
to implement back-end stuff and actually use it.

> Thanks
> Martin

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