Re: Fork DBD::mysql

[email protected] ("H.Merijn Brand") Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:36:13 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.dbi.dev,perl.dbi.users
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:08:17 +0200, [email protected] wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 August 2017 22:08:09 Dan Book wrote:
> > Though the reversion was made with good intentions of preserving back
> > compat in the short term, it was accompanied by a promise of reapplying the
> > many important fixes that were reverted (
> > https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/compare/4.041...4.042 ) as well as
> > re-adding a correct utf8 encoding option, as it is still necessary to fix
> > this broken behavior one way or another. Since nothing has happened,
> > forking may be the only reasonable option. We are currently version pinned
> > to 4.042 as "upgrading" to 4.043 would be a massive regression in our
> > codebase.
> > 
> > -Dan  
> 
> Ok, I understood Dan's email as there are already users who cannot
> upgrade to the last DBD::mysql version (where revert happened) as it
> contains bugs...
> 
> And due to big silent, I would say that DBD::mysql is really dead.

I doubt that. Maybe the active maintainer is on holiday. It is the
season you know.

June is indeed a few months ago, but it was still this year. NOT dead.
Please try to contact Michiel first.

Author: Michiel Beijen <[email protected]>  2017-06-29 11:25:48
Committer: Michiel Beijen <[email protected]>  2017-06-29 11:30:07
Tags: 4.043
Parent: 1ece6b4b8630a1cf348373aa41cbe5f748dcd62a (Merge pull request #137 from pali/versions)
Branch: remotes/origin/master
Follows: 4.042
Precedes: 

    New version 4.043 - the same as 4.041

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