Hi, as a companion to the recently announced new libdbi release, there is also a new libdbi-drivers release:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65979 The benefits of using this new release are as follows: - to avoid possible conflicts with database client libraries (think package names!) all driver libraries were renamed from libname.suffix to libdbdlibname.suffix. E.g. the MySQL shared library was renamed from mysql.so to libdbdmysql.so. Unless your package manager does this automatically, it is recommended to clean out old driver libraries from /usr/local/lib/dbd (or wherever they ended up). Remember that this change affects only the library names. The driver names (the ones your program uses to load particular drivers) did *not* change - assorted fixes in the oracle driver - the mysql driver now supports the BIT and NEWDECIMAL types introduced in MySQL 5.0.3 - added a new (experimental) Ingres 2006 driver - the "--disable-docs" configure switch now allows to build libdbi-drivers without having the sgml toolchain installed - plugged a few memory holes - fixed a segfault in the error message handling code of sqlite/sqlite3 - improved compatibility with older PostgreSQL versions - sqlite and sqlite3 now grok semicolons in query strings - you can now optionally link the drivers against libdbi by using the "--enable-libdbi" configure switch. This sounds weird at first, but it allows to load libdbi into a dlopen'ed module, like this: Parent => dl_open(module) => dl_open(libdbi) => dl_open(driver) Drivers compiled with this option should work ok in the regular context (your app linked against libdbi) as well. Please let us know if you bump into any problems. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ libdbi-users mailing list libdbi-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-users
