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DBD-Informix-0.95
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Changes for version 0.95

  • 1999-12-30: Create ItWorks script to report on working versions. Update README; annotate DELIMIDENT as a source of test failures on NT in particular, and probably in general. Fix esqltest.ec and esqlbasic.ec to accomodate error +25507, as reported by Carrie Coy <carriec@doc.state.vt.us>. Note that all other ESQL/C error messages are negative, but it only takes one exception to cause problems. Set version to 0.95 and dispatch to PAUSE and CPAN. With luck, DBD::Informix gets handed over to Michael Kopchenov <myk@informix.com> from now on. Jonathan Leffler remains in place as 'product manager'. Wishing everybody a Happy New Millenium (unless you want to wait an extra 367 days for the next millenium to begin). 1999-12-30: Create 0.95b2 with more NT-inspired changes from MYK. 1999-12-29: Create 0.95b1 for testing at Informix. Final release of version 0.95 scheduled for 1999-12-31. Includes some NT build fixes from Michael Kopchenov <myk@informix.com>. 1999-12-28: Reorganization of Makefile.PL with subroutines at end was suggested by Medi Montaseri <medi@CyberShell.com> on 1998-05-20. Changes were made for the 0.61 release. 1999-12-21: Added '-qlanglvl=ansi' change to Makefile.PL for AIX suggested by Joachim Schrod <jscrod@acm.org> in January 1998, and added note about SITEARCHEXP as an alternative to INSTALLSITEARCH. Long overdue -- sorry Joachim. 1999-12-04: Add notes on URL of Japanese translation of DBD::Informix POD by Kawai Takanori <kawai@nippon-rad.co.jp>. Modify more tests to skip when appropriate. 1999-11-27: Modify esqltest to allow shared memory connections. Modify the multiple connection tests so that they are skipped. Update notes to match. 1999-11-18: Remove the 'record INFORMIXDIR and INFORMIXSERVER' code and reinstate Informix.pm (instead of Informix.pm.PL) because PAUSE and CPAN get confused when there is no Informix.pm file. Use SQL_COLNAMELEN instead of NAMESIZE for the column names in dbdimp.ec and dbdattr.ec after bug report and proposed (but different) patch from Nick Osborn <nick@bibliotech.net>. Pass $NTConfiguration as argument to find_informixdir_and_esql(), a problem afflicting NT builds first reported by Ti Lian Hwang <tilh@sin-co.sg.dhl.com>. Add ix_ServerVersion, ix_BlobSupport and ix_StoredProcedure attributes to help with XPS support (Robert Wyrick <rob@wyrick.org> helped with XPS testing). Amend tests and documentation. 1999-11-16: Add Notes/environment.variables after a report from Claude Chartier <cbos@pophost.eunet.lu> that it would be helpful to have INFORMIXCONTIME etc documented. Add Notes/web.servers for same reason; the notes need to be upgraded to discuss mod_perl for Apache. Reinstate Bundle::DBD::Informix based on what is in the DBI 1.13 bundle, which seems to work (unlike the attempt at distributing Bundle::DBD::Informix 0.62 as a separate item, which fails). 1999-11-10: Add MD5 check sums for source code in MD5-DIGEST. This will allow the DBD::Informix maintenance team to identify any changed source files. Use the md5.verify script to ensure that the individual files are OK. To check that MD5-DIGEST itself has not been modified, you run "perl md5.chksum MD5-DIGEST" and compare the output with the official value, which has to be stored somewhere. In the short term, it will go on a web site (URL to be decided). All this assumes you have the optional Digest::MD5 module on your machine, so it is listed in the Bundle::DBD::Informix pre-requisites. 1999-11-02: BugReport needs to be careful of 'id -a' which is an SVR4 variation on the POSIX.2 standard. On Solaris, use /usr/xpg4/bin/id if available, else '/usr/bin/id -a'; on other platforms, assume 'id' lists the auxilliary groups. Probably won't be accurate for some SVR4 systems other than Solaris, but probably won't matter either. Problem highlighted by Marc Esser <esserma@cerf.net>. 1999-09-23: Decide that next release will be 0.95. Create the release checklist file to help ensure that things are done properly. Modify esqlld so that Informix shared libaries are linked with absolute pathnames unless DBD_INFORMIX_RELOCATABLE_INFORMIXDIR is set in the environment. Won't help if esqlld is not used, as on some machines (eg AIX).

Documentation

Test

Modules

DBD::Informix
Access to Informix Databases
Bundle::DBD::Informix
A bundle to install all DBD::Informix related modules

Provides

DBD::Informix::db
in Informix.pm
DBD::Informix::dr
in Informix.pm
DBD::Informix::st
in Informix.pm

Examples

Other files