Guile-PG 0.42 available

Guile-PG 0.42 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  For the bugfix, mostly.  But ‘pg-print’ safety is nice, too.

  thi

README excerpt:

  Guile-PG is a collection of modules for Guile allowing access to
  the PostgreSQL RDBMS from Scheme programs.

  The low-level module ‘(database postgres)’ provides an almost
  one-to-one correspondence with the PostgreSQL "libpq" C library
  interface.  Other higher-level modules, typically named
  ‘(database postgres-FOO)’, provide abstractions and convenience
  procedures.

  This is alpha code (pre 1.0 release), tested with various, but
  not all, versions of Guile and PostgreSQL.  It may have bugs,
  and the interfaces may change from version to version.

NEWS excerpt:

  - 0.42 | 2011-10-04

    - bugfix: "make check" no longer clobbers installed file

        For Guile versions that require a Scheme wrapper for .so loading
        (i.e., Guile 1.8 and later), "make check" does a fake install w/
        a ‘prefix’ in the build tree.  Unfortunately, in Guile-PG 0.41,
        that dir was not specified to the Scheme wrapper, resulting in
        its installation under the "real" (as determined / set by the
        configure script) ‘prefix’.

        The system would reamin in this inconsistent state, with the
        wrapper pointing into the build tree, until "make install", at
        which point everything was resynchronized.  Obviously, if you
        never do "make install", the problem persists (silently, until
        the build tree is deleted).

        This has now been fixed.  If you did a "make check" but NOT
        "make install" of Guile-PG 0.41, the best way forward is to
        configure Guile-PG 0.42 and then "make install; make uninstall".

    - ‘pg-print’ now does ‘fflush’ after each operation

        This probably kills performance, but it is safer, given Guile's
        direct use of ‘write(2)’ et al.

    - ‘pg-set-client-encoding!’ also accepts symbolic encoding

tarball and its detached signature in dir:

  http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/guile-pg/

homepage:

  http://www.nongnu.org/guile-pg/