Re: Bye Bye Jonathan!
In article <69mklv$r5c@camel19.mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes >All I can say is this is a f***ing tradgedy. > Oh no! Johnwas one of the coolest people there and one of the few who regularly contributed to c.d.i. Without his extensive knowledge of the tools and what was available in which version + his dedicated software devleopment, it will not be the same. >I am sorry to see you leave Informix, Jonathan. > I'm totally gutted, no other way to describe it. Will you still have access to the Informix tools, Johanathon? Will you still be in c.d.i???? Don't leave............ >At any rate, best of success to you in your new endeavours. I hope >whoever snaps you up realizes the value of who you are and what you >contributed to Informix. As far as I'm concerned it ain't Informix >anymore without you. > >Sincerely, there ain't no other way to say it, > >Thanks! > >Tim >-- >Tim Schaefer \\\\|// >tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 >-------------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o---------------------- >http://www.inxutil.com ICQ:6358805 http://www.informix.com >http://www.iiug.org news://comp.databases.informix >mailto:majordomo@iiug.org no subject body: subscribe linux-informix >http://securities.stanford.edu/complaints/informix/ >====================================================================== > >Jonathan Leffler wrote in message <69m28n$mot@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... >>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 $ > > -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care