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.
