ANNOUNCE: DBD::Informix Version 0.58 released
The next release of DBD::Informix, version 0.58, has been uploaded to CPAN. The timestamp from PAUSE was - Thu Jan 15 21:23:15 1998 UTC. It will be available worldwide in a day or three. Please note the change of contact address. As of 17th January 1998, I do not actually work for Informix. Email sent to johnl@informix.com will not be delivered to me -- it will bounce or vanish into the great bit bucket in the sky (aka /dev/null). DBD::Informix is the driver code that enables Perl 5.003 or 5.004 to access Informix databases via the DBI module (you'll need the code for both DBI version 0.90 and DBD::Informix). The code is available for download via: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/by-category/07_Database_Interfaces http://www.arcana.co.uk/technologia/perl/DBI New in this release: * Corrected README file (0.57 had the wrong files released as READMEs; sorry). * Integrated support for NT into Makefile.PL (with trivial changes elsewhere). * Amended README to be more stringent on using C compiler to create shared libraries. * Fix bug for logged (non-ANSI) databases on BEGIN WORK when AutoCommit Off. * Amend the place-holder parsing routine to ignore ':alpha' place-holders because they are syntactically indistinguishable from Informix's database:table notation. Still to do: * Add support for IUS data types. * Try to reproduce the problems reported by Kenji Hino <kenji@alcatraz.net> and then fix them. It is related null blobs and SQL error -608. * Resolve -R option on Solaris and equivalents for getting path name of Informix shared libraries into DBD::Informix shared library, so you don't need as much environment set at run-time. * Investigate whether using sqlda structures in place of SQL descriptors makes a significant difference to the performance of DBD::Informix. * Integrate sqlcmd.sh into the build more thoroughly. Document it. Make it bomb-proof (for example, it fails horribly if you don't have a '-d' option on the command line because there isn't a way to connect to a database. Let me know of problems, as usual, and solutions too when you have them. Enjoy! Jonathan Leffler (j.leffler@acm.org) #include <disclaimer.h> PS: Read the README file. Also read the Informix.Licence file. @(#)$Id: Announce,v 58.3 1998/01/15 18:52:32 johnl Exp $