[libdbi-devel] anyone still listening?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

here's a ping to everyone who is still and maybe accidentally subscribed 
to this list. A bout of corona, quite harmless thanks to three helpings 
of Comirnaty, created some free time to fiddle with my software projects 
again, after being forced to neglect them for years. Long story short, 
I'd like to revert an ill-advised patch from 2017 and add an option to 
the MySQL driver which allows users to set the SQL mode per session, 
without having to reconfigure an entire server for specific purposes 
like some legacy SQL code. Problem is, my knowledge about release 
versioning and, even more so, library versioning, is rusty, to say the 
least. Neither of the changes will affect backward compatibility. The 
change to libdbi fixes a stupid patch which caused an extra error 
message without affecting the function of the library itself. The change 
to the driver honors another option but the driver works the same if the 
option is not set. So how am I supposed to deal with the versioning 
here?

Helpful hints are greatly welcome. Also, feel free to suggest additional 
changes that the project might need.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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