Re: DBD::mysql - bit worrying

Lyle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/04/2013 00:58, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2013.04.11 4:37 PM, Lyle wrote:
>> Hmm... Got a reply to my bug report and it's a bit worrying:
>> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68266
>>
>> Seems like MySQL don't want to directly support DBD::mysql any more. 
>> Whether you
>> like mysql or not, that's a heavily used DBD.
>
> I'm not aware that DBD::mysql was ever supported through the general 
> MySQL bug reporter, and I understood it was a separate project.

It most certainly was, for example:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20153

The DBD::mysql docs still tell you to report bugs there. Even I was able 
to submit a bug to their DBD::mysql category just last February, they've 
only just removed it from the bug reporter.

> I think Patrick Galbraith is the person you should ask about this 
> matter, as Patrick has been the one releasing DBD::mysql on CPAN for 
> many years, a full decade at this point.

I've just joined the [email protected] mailing list. It'll be 
interesting to see if that list stays or gets removed as well.


Lyle

>
> -- Darren Duncan
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