We are realeasing SqueakDBX 1.2, just an small release. For those who doesn’t know, SqueakDBX is a database driver to connect to most of the existing databases.

For more details, please read www.squeakdbx.org

The main changes in this release are:

• ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX version: 1.2
• Comments: SqueakDBX stable 1.2
• OpenDBX version: 1.5
• New Features
  • GlorpDBX connection pool for SqueakDBXDriver.
  • New support for Firebird 100% green tests in Windows.
  • New support for MySQL 4.
  • New tests for PostgreSQL sequences, for bad data settings.
  • We now let a platform to set special options ALWAYS before opening the connection.
  • Packages remodularization and little changes so that to easily support ports, for example to Dolphin.
  • Start to support large objects. For the moment: Postgresql supports TEXT, MySQL supports TEXT and BLOB, and SQLite CLOB (error with BLOB), Oracle supports CLOB and NCLOB.
  • Added the possibility to enable or disable automatic release of connections using WeakRegistry.
• Notes
  • Tested with Cog, resulting in an average of 3x increase.
  • Tested in Pharo 1.0 and 1.1.
  • Updated Metacello configurations

To install it:

Gofer new squeaksource: ’MetacelloRepository’; package: ’ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX’; load.

(ConfigurationOfSqueakDBX project version: ’1.2’) load.

In Pharo 1.1 I recommend to evaluate the following:

DBXPlatform disableAutomaticConnectionReleaseOnGC

Cheers

Mariano