Re: [Mysqlcppapi-main] a patch - where to send?

[Jonathan W. <co...@co...>]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:48:04PM +0100, Radoslaw Garbacz wrote:

> Hello,

Hi,

>  I am the newbe with using the sourceforge so sorry for my lack of knowledge.
> 
>  I have been using the mysqlcppapi library successfully for some time, so at 
> first I would like to thank all maintainers and developers for the good work 
> they have done.

Thanks for the kind words (I am the current maintainer but can't take
credit for much of the library myself).

>  I did some slight changes to the package and I would like to ask where shell 
> I send the patch? Is the sourceforge project's <patches> link the right place 
> to do it?

Yes, or sending it to this list might get a quicker response.

>  The changes are quite minor - I just got rid of few warnings during the 
> compilation (defined but not used methods' parameters) and corrected 
> "mysql_shutdown" invocation to match the new MySQL interface (4.1.10) - but 
> without preprocessor directives to check the MySQL version (sorry). 

Please check the latest version from CVS, at least the mysql_shutdown
change is already done.  I *badly* need to make a new release incorporating
those changes.

>  I would like to ask, if it was possible, for the more complex exceptions 
> scheme - for now I have to check the exception's description to check the 
> reason (e.g. all "artificial deadlocks" of MySQL which, as they suggest, 
> should cause transactions retrial).

That's a good idea, feel free to post suggestions to this list.

jon

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