[libdbi-devel] (no subject)

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

Hi all,

I'd like to see how many of my fellow developers are still active in
the project. Once again I've got to a point where my pet project
(RefDB, http://refdb.sourceforge.net) needs some additional
functionality in terms of SQL databases. In fact, the current version
requires the libdbi-drivers and libdbi CVS versions in order to run
properly with all supported database engines, a fact that package
maintainers do not exactly appreciate.

I've noticed in the CVS log that mainly Christian made some fixes in
the past. He has also added new drivers. I've added a sqlite3 driver
myself, which supports libsqlite3 (incompatible with the older 2.x
versions). I'd like to see all this new stuff wrapped up in released
versions.

Is anyone willing to help creating another maintenance release?

In terms of bug fixing I'm especially interested in one issue which is
currently above my head. MySQL 4.1 and later has a quite confusing
support for character encodings, collations and whatever. What makes
it most confusing to me is that there are database encodings, which
need not be identical with connection encodings. Has anyone ever
looked into this? All that I can say is that RefDB using MySQL 4.1 as
the database engine does not appear to do the right thing, most likely
because mysql_character_set_name() in the mysql driver does not return
what we expect. I'll look into this more closely but I wanted to hear
first whether someone else is working on this.

regards,
Markus

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