[Zope] ZMySQLDA-2.0.9b3 released

robert robert at redcor.ch
Sun Mar 6 00:09:08 EST 2005


Andy Dustman wrote:

>https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307&package_id=38198&release_id=310605
>
>This release fixes the problem of MySQLdb-1.0.0 and newer returning
>BLOBs as character arrays, and returns them as strings. It also should
>be a bit more robust if connections time out.
>  
>
great

>I would really like to get some feedback on this release within the
>next week so I can make a final release for 2.0.9.
>
>Here's an open issue: Should character data be returned as unicode? It
>probably wouldn't be hard to implement, but I wonder how much other
>stuff would break. There's already a ton of stuff being stuffed in the
>connection string, but it probably needs to be a connection option,
>doesn't it?
>  
>
I think it should be unicode, but it must be configurable. Otherwise 
applikations that do allredy fix problems with unicode could break.

Robert



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