If you can change the API so "correctly" written apps don't break and "poorly" written ones work too...yeah rah... The only thing I would ask is a clear example of what "correctly" written is....does that exist? I can't find it in the documentataion. Plus, a clear example of "poorly" written...but stil works due to 3.7.5 changes....so that smart app developers can see what they probably did and must do in the future...and how to maintain compatibility across versions. The "Simple C program" is wholly inadequate to show anybody how to do anything correctly. Perhaps a more complex example that shows complete usage is what is needed for developers that don't read every line of the documentaion and instead rely on other poorly written examples to learn... An example of confusing documentation...
SQLITE_DONE <https://legacy2.ngc.com/Exchange/Michael.Black2/Drafts/c3ref/c_abort.html> means that the statement has finished executing successfully. sqlite3_step() should not be called again on this virtual machine without first calling sqlite3_reset() <https://legacy2.ngc.com/Exchange/Michael.Black2/Drafts/c3ref/reset.html> to reset the virtual machine back to its initial state. I think what's meant here is that you can't call the SAME stmt again without sqlite3_reset() -- but it doesn't say that...no doubt obvioius to the author...makes it sound like if I create a new stmt I have to call it too... A more complex example would clarify...people take the least painful way to do things...and poorly written examples are the bane of good programming...long live bubble sort!! Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Advanced Analytics Directorate Northrop Grumman Information Systems ________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org on behalf of Richard Hipp Sent: Tue 1/11/2011 6:15 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [sqlite] Propose minor incompatible API change I don't think I explained the problem clearly. The proposed change is for the benefit of the applications customers, not the application developers. An end user (think: your mom) wants to upgrade her smartphone to the latest OS release. That new OS release includes the latest shared library for SQLite. But in so doing, some percentage of the apps she has downloaded cease to work. Sure, the problem really is that the apps were incorrectly coded. But does your mom really care about that? They worked before. Do we really want thousand, perhaps millions, of moms screaming that SQLite broke their phone when they upgraded? -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
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