Recent changes to feature-requests

Update libdbi-drivers.spec.in to incorporate all drivers

JSBeck — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:03:01 -0000

I have a fairly generic RPM specfile for libdbi-drivers 0.8.3 that incorporates support for all available drivers rather than hardcode a subset.

test for proper functioning of drivers up dlopen() on libdbi

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:55:56 -0000

I've written some unit tests to make sure that the drivers work when libdbi is loaded via a plugin of any time that is linked to it.

I hope they will find their way into a release of libdbi-drivers. They will likely be included as part of the packaging of libdbi-drivers in Ubuntu and Debian soon.

unify licensing

Markus Hoenicka — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:15:03 -0000

The mysql and pgsql drivers use the LGPL, the other drivers use the GPL. Along the same lines, the mysql and pgsql driver docs use the GFDL, whereas the other driver docs have no license attached. In order to simplify packaging by Debian and other distributions, the sources and the docs should be re-licensed using a single and Debian-compatible license.

debian package ld.so.conf.d config file

Josh Stompro — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:21:09 -0000

I would like to make a feature request for the debian packages of
libdbd*. Please consider having the packages create the ld.so config
file that adds /usr/lib/dbd to the ldconfig path.
Such as
$ cat "/usr/lib/dbd" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/dbd.conf

I think this is going to be the standard debian way of doing this sort
of thing in the near future.
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070318.100838.941895e3.en.html

Thank you for considering this request.
Josh

void * disables typechecking.

Peter MacDonald — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:43:33 -0000

Using void* for dbi_driver, etc makes debugging
more difficult than it needs to be. One workaround is
to use something like the following in dbi.h

#if ((!defined(DBI_DRIVER_DIR))
||(defined(DBI_NO_VOIDPTRS)))
typedef struct { int unused; } *dbi_driver;
typedef struct { int unused; } *dbi_conn;
typedef struct { int unused; } *dbi_result;
#else
/* opaque type definitions */
typedef void * dbi_driver;
typedef void * dbi_conn;
typedef void * dbi_result;
#endif

version number in header

Peter MacDonald — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:18:56 -0000

As libdbi evolves and functions are added
it might be useful to put
a version number in the dbi.h header ala Tcl. eg.

#define DBI_VERSION "8.1"
#define DBI_VERSION_MAJOR "8"
#define DBI_VERSION_MINOR "1"

and would save doing bit hit and miss things like

#ifdef DB_TYPES_NULL
...
#endif