Hi folks. We are realeasing SqueakDBX 1.2, just an small release. For those who doesn't know, SqueakDBX is a database driver to connect to most of the existing databases.<br><br>For more details, please read <a href="http://www.squeakdbx.org" target="_blank">www.squeakdbx.org</a><br>
<br>The main changes in this release are:<br><ul><li>ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX version: 1.2 </li><li>Comments: SqueakDBX
stable 1.2 </li><li>OpenDBX version: 1.5 </li><li>New Features <ul><li>GlorpDBX
connection pool for SqueakDBXDriver. Thanks to John Toohey for this contribution.<br></li><li>New support for Firebird
100% green tests in Windows. </li><li>New support for MySQL 4. </li><li>New
tests for PostgreSQL sequences, for bad data settings, large objects, etc. </li><li>We now
let a platform to set special options ALWAYS before opening the
connection. </li><li>Packages remodularization and little changes so
that to easily support ports, for example to Dolphin. </li><li>Start to
support large objects. For the moment: Postgresql supports TEXT, MySQL
supports TEXT and BLOB, and SQLite CLOB (error with BLOB), Oracle
supports CLOB and NCLOB. </li><li>Added the possibility to enable or
disable automatic release of connections using WeakRegistry. </li></ul> </li><li>Notes
<ul><li>Tested with Cog, resulting in an average of 3x increase and 100% green. </li><li>Tested
in Pharo 1.0 and 1.1. </li><li>Updated Metacello configurations </li></ul></li></ul><br>To install it:<br><br>Gofer new<br> squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';<br> package: 'ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX';<br>
load.<br><br>(ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX project version: '1.2') load.<br><br>In Pharo 1.1 I recommend to evaluate the following:<br><br>DBXPlatform disableAutomaticConnectionReleaseOnGC<br><br>Cheers<br><br>
Mariano<br><br>