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After a long hiatus, there will be a new DBI package out sometime this weekend. Hooray! It's mostly been Francis and myself, but Kirk and Patrick have been somewhat involved as well. So, what's new?
* A few minor bug fixes, including a nicer error message when a driver fails to load properly. * Refactored lots of existing code, especially row.rb, which should provide some minor speedup. * Added lots of comments to the existing source in preparation for rdoc. * Added many more tests, which now use test/unit instead of the older RUnit.
No gem yet, though. Next release hopefully. We have to work on some other things first. These include:
* A Rakefile. * More bug fixes. * Whether or not to distribute the drivers with the dbi package. I'm pushing to remove these completely, and have them packaged separately and gemified. Easier to manage and maintain that way. * The DBI::Time, DBI::Date, and DBI::Timestamp classes. I'd like to ditch these in favor of using Ruby's builtin Time and Date classes, leaving us only the Timestamp class to write ourselves. Trying to remove these might be painful, though. * Bug fixes for the drivers themselves.
This release will not be without incident, however. I've already hit a nasty bug with the postgres-pr driver and the latest one-click installer for 1.8.4. I don't hit it with a custom built 1.8.4, though, which leaves me to conclude that it's a compiler (VC++ 6) issue.
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