Re: DBD::mysql next steps

Me too!

I look forward to getting pull requests reviewed and in the driver as 
well as get your UTF-8 work in per my previous email. We can use all the 
help we can get.

regards,

Patrick

On 11/11/17 3:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2017 10:13:55 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote:
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> Michiel and I have been talking, weighing options of what course to take in
>> dealing with moving forward-- with the goal of both offering both stability
>> and the choice to have the latest functionality and bug fixes as well as
>> give contributors the opportunity to be part of overall improvements to the
>> driver.
>>
>> What we are going to do is:
>>
>> Add to the connection the ability to turn on proper UTF handling with
>> 'mysql_enable_proper_unicode'. This gives the user volition the option to knowingly
>> toggle whether they want the new functionality and understand that
>> data structures returned or accepted by the driver might be different
>> than without this setting.
>>
>> The other options had their merits, but we think this will solve the issue
>> while keeping the driver unified and prevent divergence.
>>
>> Thank you for your input over the last couple months-- we look forward to
>> moving ahead!
>>
>> Patrick and Michiel
> Great! Thank you very much, I'm waiting for a new action which would
> bring DBD::mysql back to the active development.