Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:45:42PM -0400: D. Richard Hipp wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 10:57 -0500, Ian Monroe wrote: > > I do not see how such a major change can be justified in a minor point > > release. For instance, currently amaroK does not work when using a > > sqlite database on Debian Sid since they package it with sqlite 3.2.5. > > > > Shouldn't this have waited for 4.0? > > > > There are no plans at this time to ever release version 4.0. > > SQLite has *never* supported the ability of a handle to be used > by more than one thread. By luck, such use would sometimes work on > some operating systems. But it would fail on others. Such a > situation is very dangerous since if a developer is working on > a system where the misuse of SQLite just happened to work, they > might not detect their design error and then ship non-working code > to a customer where it would fail. A minor change in check-in [2517] > detects the misuse of SQLite on all systems and prevents it from > working even by chance. This allows the problem to be detected > early and corrected before it reaches a customer.
In this case, the ability of a handle to be used by more than one thread should be always denied to avoid portability problems. -- Guillaume FOUGNIES Eulerian Technologies
