Re: [gnome-db] GDA 4 and Ubuntu Lucid

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

2010/1/21 Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets gmail com>:
>
> On 21.01.2010, at 19:12, Vivien Malerba wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/21 Piotr Pokora <piotrek pokora gmail com>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have asked this question off-list, but would like to ask "officially".
>>> Is there any plan to release GDA 4.2 in *near* future and include it in
>>> upcoming Ubuntu Lucid release?
>>>
>>> Current situation with availability of semi buggy GDA3 here and there
>>> *and* not yet stable and usable GDA4 4.0.x is far from comfortable from
>>> distributing GDA derived applications/libraries point of view.
>>>
>>> I ask about Ubuntu Lucid because it's LTS release.
>>> *If* GDA 4.2 (even with acceptable issues) could be included in this
>>> Ubuntu release, a support for it, with minor updates, would be available
>>> for years, giving other people stable library basement.
>>>
>>> I know, GDA has own releases cycle, but distros have own too, and these
>>> days, plenty of people select applications depending on their
>>> availability either in distros or other compatible repositories.
>>
>> I understand your concerns, and I've just released a 4.1.4 version
>> which still contains some UI extension bugs, for the purpose of having
>> a 4.2 ASAP.
>>
>> However, regarding the core features (non UI), the corrections made in
>> the 4.1.x releases have all been backported into the 4.0.x versions.
>> So the problem maybe should be to have Lucid include an up to date 4.0
>> version (the 4.0.6 has just been released and a 4.0.7 is on the way).
>
> So, does it mean that "cores" of libgda 4.0.6 and libgda 4.1.4 are identical?
>

Almost: in 4.1:
* the "core" has a new connection option which allows to have several
threads access a connection even if the connection is not thread safe,
* the meta data also fetches indexes information
* there is a new "web" provider which allows to access a database
through a web server.

Vivien