[Dbix-class] Last stable version of DBIx::Class and DB2 V9.1

Peter Rabbitson rabbit+dbic at rabbit.us
Tue Feb 3 13:19:24 GMT 2009


Andreas Mock wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Don't understand me wrong. I just wanted to give you the sight of an first visitor.
> You know yourself that the first impression counts. ;-)
> I took the time to join the mailing list and writing down my two errors I got
> wile testing. I'm sure that there are many people out there which would cancel
> a proof of concept right after the failing tests and never giving feedback.
> 

This is why we try to tend to such test failure reports and do appreciate them.
Thanks for staying with us while we got to the bottom of it.

> The do-subroutine of DBD::DB2 calls SUPER::do when there are more parameters (in case of attributes).
> DBI::do does a dbh->prepare with much more parameters as the external API (docu) says. When
> DBI::do does call prepare is calls DBD::DB2::prepare which ignores the additional parameters.
> 
> I don't know who is responsible for that.
> Fact is: DBD::DB2 does not fulfill the API. And you're right!

;)

> IMHO DBI does something which is not a good style for OO-programming.
> I will try to contact the DBD::DB2 guys.

Earliest still available version of DBI was released 10 years ago. There ought
to be quite a number of peculiarities.

So do you now have any remaining issues with installing DBIC or is everything
more or less resolved?

Thanks for the input.




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