0.53 Release Candidate 2

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Sun Dec 16 17:51:42 EST 2001


I've added Michael's patches for DBD::Sybase 0.94 since they were very 
non-instrusive (thought they were there already actually...).  Michael 
mentioned some specific shortcomings when using FreeTDS with DBD::Sybase, 
but at least it'll build, and run most stuff.  

So, unless I hear something by tuesday (my last work day for the 
year) I'll release it on wednesday.  I'd appreciate hearing any "seems to 
work" reports as well, as I got no feedback on the last candidate. 

By the way Michael, if  you're reading, this release does work with the 
ct_dynamic() sample you sent me, but DBD::Sybase only partly works.  
Specifically, it works for insert/update on char fields only.  Numeric 
datatypes (int, float, etc..) all get the same value, and doing some 
debugging all bound values had the exact same memory address, so I'm not 
sure what is precisely the problem, but it works in C.  selects on the 
other hand fail in C and Perl, so that is my problem exclusively.

As for other non-working Perlisms, I'm (yet again) fairly strapped for 
time, so they are unlikely to get fixed without a) somebody else doing it 
or b) someone providing a unittest to demo the missing functionality.  I 
would actually like to fix it, I just don't have the time to spend 
tracking it down right now.


Happy Holidays,

Brian




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