Re: references to non-existant functions in edbi_mysql.e?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 01, 2013
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He used it last night, about 15 minutes after he posted here... IRC is real-time.
I was asleep when he had first started asking about it, so you would have beaten me to the chase anyways.
The irc channel is public, it's logged, the files i uploaded are still there.
You have a hell of a powerful compulsion to fight me, don't you?
You get all that from my stating that I was asleep?
Sounds like the reverse is true.
He first asked specific questions, and tried downloading from the official Eu download location(s), and trying to use them. It became apparent to both of us there was a desync between EDBI and the official v4.0.5, and apparently the latest v4.1.0 on the official download site was also not working. So i 7z'd and uploaded what i use. And at 9:34pm ...
[21:34] <rywilly> SWEET! [21:34] <rywilly> it worked! [21:34] <any25596957>[21:35] <rywilly> i ran the example that created a table and data on the remote mysql server! [21:35] <rywilly> now i can quit for the day, knowing that it works, and i can start working on the actual application tomorrow
Now beat me to a pulp with that, jimcbrown.
Since you so kindly asked, I'll point out that:
The issue with edbi 4.0 should be fixed, or at least deserves a ticket on the bitbucket site.
Any issues with the 4.1.0 eubins should also be fixed, and deserves a ticket on the openeuphoria.org product.
The IRC logs aren't searchable by the website's search function. (Searching them isn't difficult, but the method to do so may not be obvious to a complete novice.) These problems probably need to be documented elsewhere to be of benefit to future novices. (Of course, the best place for this is not in a forum message, but in tickets.)
Solving the issue by having everyone use and maintain their own copy of the library leads to a kind of DLL Heck where different versions of what should be the same library are no longer interchangable and trying to reuse code from them (or combine projects together that use different versions of those libraries) can easily become a nightmare. (Though that doesn't seem to have been the case here.)
EDIT: fix typo
However, this is really the responsibility of the devs. Saving rywilly a day of effort is a positive, useful, and worthwhile contribution - but that doesn't mean that there aren't loose ends to be tied up.
