A second release candidate for DBI 1.43 is available for testing at:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBI-1.43-rc2-20040702.tar.gz
=head1 CHANGES in DBI 1.43 (svn rev 377), 2nd July 2004
Fixed connect() and connect_cached() RaiseError/PrintError
which would sometimes show "(no error string)" as the error.
Fixed compiler warning thanks to Paul Marquess.
Fixed "trace level set to" trace message thanks to H.Merijn Brand.
Fixed DBD::DBM $dbh->{dbm_tables}->{...} to be keyed by the
table name not the file name thanks to Jeff Zucker.
* Fixed last_insert_id(...) thanks to Rudy Lippan.
Fixed propagation of scalar/list context into proxied methods.
Fixed DBI::Profile::DESTROY to not alter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed DBI::ProfileDumper new() docs thanks to Michael Schwern.
Fixed _load_class to propagate $@ thanks to Drew Taylor.
Fixed compile warnings on Win32 thanks to Robert Baron.
Fixed problem building with recent versions of MakeMaker.
Fixed DBD::Sponge not to generate warning with threads.
Fixed DBI_AUTOPROXY to work more than once thanks to Steven Hirsch.
* Changed TraceLevel 1 to not show recursive/nested calls.
* Changed getting or setting an invalid attribute to no longer be
* a fatal error but generate a warning instead.
Changed selectall_arrayref() to call finish() if
$attr->{MaxRows} is defined.
Changed all tests to use Test::More and enhanced the tests thanks
to Stevan Little and Andy Lester. See http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/
Changed Test::More minimum prerequisite version to 0.40 (2001).
* Change DBI::Profile header to include timestamp.
Added DBI->parse_dsn($dsn) method.
Added warning if build directory path contains whitespace.
Added docs for parse_trace_flags() and parse_trace_flag().
Removed "may change" warnings from the docs for table_info(),
primary_key_info(), and foreign_key_info() methods.
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The starred items are those that have changed since the previous
release candidate.
Testing on a range of platforms, perl configs and drivers would be
appreciated.
Thanks!
Tim.
p.s. DBI 1.43 will be the last release before the Perl Conference
and possibly the last release of DBI v1 - except for bug fixes and
changes to ease migration to DBI v2. Not that DBI v2 exists yet, but...
