Bug #14099 for DBD-Informix: RE: ANNOUNCE: IBM Informix Database Driver for Perl DBI Version 2 005.02 (2005-07-29) released

Dear Brian, You said: Please reply to confirm that you received this email and acknowledge it's content. Let me know if you need any other information. I'm back from vacation today - I have seen this message. I have not yet fully digested it. The obvious issue with t08fork.t would be that Windows Perl may not support fork, or may do so with some sort of emulation. As such, the test is probably mostly invalid on Windows. Whether there is an alternative way of doing the test is debatable - I'll need to cogitate on that. If you have any thoughts, I'm very willing to listen. The issue with t91udts.t seems to be that the types already exist - and are in use. This is a failure in the test suite. Suggestion: try running t99clean.t and then rerunning t91udts.t. If t99clean.t doesn't clean up, then we'll need to look into how and why that is not doing the clean up - but there's at least a moderate chance that creating a scratch (empty) database and running the test suite against that would work for you. IOW, roughly, the problem is in the test suite more than DBD::Informix itself. I have not updated the Working.Versions file in several years - at least, not meaningfully. The added entries for 2004 were from a 'release' that never went to CPAN! I need to fix - or remove - that file. And get the Working Versions reports onto a web site... Which is why they were 'XML' formatted. I'll work on the other information later - sorry, I have many demands on my time for the rest of this week. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@us.ibm.com) STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Information Management Division 4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921 "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"