[Dbd-firebird-devel] DBD::FirebirdEmbedded available in the optional-libfbembed branch
Damyan Ivanov
dmn at debian.org
Wed Oct 26 05:20:05 UTC 2011
The 'optional-libfbembed' branch contains a stream of commits that
provide DBD::FirebirdEmbedded -- an automatically created, modified
copy of DBD::Firebird, linked with the Firebird embedded library. This
is made by Makefile.PL creating a copy of the sources in embed/ and
mangling that a bit to provide DBD::FirebirdEmbedded. The full test
suite is copied with 'embed' prefix too and adjusted to use the
embedded driver. If fbembed is not available, a message is printed and
the build continues as before, ignoring DBD::FirebirdEmbedded.
Among the way, there are a couple notable improvements.
* creation/dropping of databases is made through driver methods and
no longer requires external ISQL
* checking the database is also made via driver methods and not ISQL.
These two, apart from dropping the hassle of running ISQL and
parsing its output, fix a problem when embedded test suite is run
on a system, whose ISQL is linked with fbclient -- such a binary
always tries to access the database via the locally running server,
which can't work in embedded mode due to access permissions and
unavailable authentication.
* created test database's forced writes are turned off (again, via
a driver method, no external GFIX required). This speeds the tests
considerably.
The changes are many, but in the end DBD::Firebird acts exactly as
before (with added functionality), and there is also
DBD::FirebirdEmbedded, which can be tested completely isolated from
the rest of the system, like on Debian autobuilders. All the embedded
stuff is not simply a copy of the driver, but a copy which is made by
Makefile.PL, so it would follow any changes in the traditional driver
and there is no need to keep a fork in sync.
I think it is safe to merge to master and release, but because of the
big number of commits, I don't mind if the code rests a bit for
testing/commetnts/fixes.
Cheers!
dam
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