On Friday 10 November 2017 13:40:40 demerphq wrote: > On 10 November 2017 at 13:11, <p...@cpan.org> wrote: > > Should DBD::mysql maintainers now starting complaining to Oracle and > > MariaDB, that they must revert their changes in MySQL and MariaDB, just > > because DBD::mysql (as libmysqlclient application) stopped working, > > because is misusing internals of C structures? > > Pali, I wanted to give you some feedback on this thread. I have been > monitoring this discussion for some time. My $workplace probably has > one of the largest Mysql footprints in the world, and certainly in the > Perl world. We have funded MySQL/DBI related work in the past, and we > are a large funder of TPF. So we are in the position to throw > resources at this problem if the circumstances were appropriate. > > But it is very difficult to determine if the circumstances ARE > appropriate because of the level of hysteria in your posts. I believe > your intentions are good, and I am willing to assume you are > technically correct about many of the things you comment on, but I > must say that the tone and form in which you are discussing it is > counter-productive. > > The people you are talking to on this list by and large are software > developers and DB types, a group of people who are very intelligent, > experienced, and naturally conservative in their analytical approach. > Hysterical comments are not going to impress people like this. > Expecting people to blindly accept that your analysis is the one and > only viable analysis when your debating style is high on rhetoric and > low on facts or reasoned analysis is only going to frustrate yourself > and annoy the people on this list. > > I really think you need to step back, bring your frustration (however > understandable that frustration is) into check and try a more > dispassionate approach. Despite lurking in this thread for some time I > am still lacking the precise specification of the problem at hand that > drives some of your comments. While I would like to do a code review > and see how much I agree with what you are saying, it is very > difficult to extract the substance from the rhetoric. > > I think if you can manage to tone your responses down a bit you will > get a much more productive response from the list. > > With respect, > Yves
Hi! I'm sorry if you understood it as a hysteria.. above quoted parts was just rhetoric question. Not offense or a bad tone. I'm not native English speaker and foreign language could be here a problem. Sorry for that. I'm disappointed that it is now 3 or 4 months (or more) that development of DBD::mysql is fully blocked and nothing is happening. On one side are people wanting old DBD::mysql, on other side are people wanting support for new MariaDB and everything is just stuck :-( I just wanted to point that there are technical problems also between libmysqlclient and DBD::mysql driver have similar impact as problems between some perl applications and DBD::mysql.
