Re: HOLD 1.632 please

Too late. It's already been released, and testing fairly well
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI+1.632

On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:43:19AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100188
> 
> DBD::File has an issue that might cause backward compat:

> Now we have both a numeric TYPE attribute and a matching TYPE_NAME
> attribute, but how much DBD::File uses might this break?
> 
> MY opinion is that we should meet the DBI docs: return NUMERIC for the
> TYPE attribute. All DBD::File consumers that ever depended on STRING
> behavior depended on implementation (error) instead of docs

Seems reasonable.

But, while that's being developed and tested against a number of DBD's,
should there be a DBI-1.633 release that undoes the breakage in the
short term?


Tim.