[ANNOUNCE] Gtk2::Ex::DBI-2.0

[Dan <dan entropy homelinux org>]

After much procrastinating and inactivity, I'm pleased to announce the 
next major release of Gtk2::Ex::DBI

Gtk2::Ex::DBI is a part of the Axis Not Evil project, a suit of 
cross-platform Perl modules that combine to provide an alternative to a 
'leading' software vendor's RAD design tool for database access.


Project Page:
http://entropy.homelinux.org/axis_not_evil/


Major changes for this release include a new SQL object that replaces 
the somewhat fragmented approach of previous versions ( with support for 
legacy requests included ), support for placeholders ( for security and 
ease of use ), a graphical search dialog, and updated documentation.


Detailed changelog:

- Overhaul of SQL clause handling - now all SQL-related stuff is in the 
'sql' hash

- Added support for placeholders in where clause

- Added legacy mode to support 1.x requests

- Added find tool ( right-click in a widget and select 'find', or call 
find_dialog() ) for user searches

- Added detection of primary key from column_info() ( MySQL only at 
present )

- Added destroy method, which destroys all signal handlers we've 
created, then destroys itself

- Don't modify $self->{sql}->{select} in fetch_new_slice - assemble 
$local_sql and modify that

- Added missing 'order by' string to fetch_new_slice ... I was wondering 
what was up with that :)

- Change suspicious signal_connect calls to signal_connect_after ( avoid 
GtkEntry focus-out-event error )

- Remove unnecessary signal_handler_block() and signal_handler_unblock() 
calls before set_record_spinner_range()

- Delete records in $self->{records} before querying ( fixes display of 
'stale' records if query() returns no records )

- Fixed rare bug in display of 'stale' record if there's only 1 record, 
and it gets deleted

- Added method undo(), which is a synonym of revert()

- Updated documentation & cleaned up POD somewhat