From: Jim Cain <list@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T01:13:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby9i now available

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Jim Cain wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>>
>> If anyone has any features that they would like supported, please let 
>> me know. For now, I've got plenty of time to spend on this project 
>> since I was just laid off. My loss is the Ruby community's gain, I hope.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> As for features, I personally hate manual installation.  Here's a little 
> extconf.rb script I whipped up for folks to use.

Yes, I agree with you. I just haven't taken the time to study the "Ruby 
way" in that regard yet. I'll have that included in the next release.

> Only thing that surprised me was that statement handles didn't have a 
> close method.  But otherwise, it worked! Oracle 9.0.1, Solaris 9, btw.

They do have #finish though. Actually it was originally called close, 
but I changed it to agree with the DBI so that it would be a little more 
intuitive for the people who were used to the DBI but who still wanted 
to use the low-level API in the C extension.

> Oh, one more thing.  Please create tarballs so that they unpack into 
> their own directory, not the current directory.  You seem a decent 
> fellow - I'd hate to kill you. :-P

Done. Sorry. I had just quicky uploaded the tarball I used for backing 
up the code.