pkgsrc/databases/libgda/DESCR
obache d590ae415f Update libgda to 3.0.1
Based on patch proveided by Makoto Fujiwara in PR 36715.

Pkgsrc Changes:
 Added fam option.

from NEWS:
libgda 3.0.1, 2007-05-10

 - Bug fixes: #433687, #434464, #432798, #432798
 (Armin Burgmeier, Gustavo R. Montesino, Leonardo Boshell, Vivien Malerba)
 - Translations:
	- ar (Djihed Afifi)


libgda 3.0.0, 2007-04-20

 - misc. bug fixes (Armin Burgmeier, Vivien Malerba)
 - bug fixes in the SQL delimiter to handle comments, BEGIN and END blocks and PostgreSQL's
   dollar quoting (Vivien Malerba)
 - more unit tests (Vivien Malerba)
 - removed dependecy and test for popt (Baris Cicek)
 - fixed SQLite provider's error reporting, and implemented the get_last_insert_id() virtuel
   method (Vivien Malerba)
 - fixed MySQL's provider error where the same column would be reported several times in
   the TABLE_FIELDS schema (Vivien Malerba)
 - fixed a misbehaviour in the data model import of XML files (Vivien Malerba)
 - docs improvements
 - removed ambiguities in the source files: mention LGPL everywhere in the library, and
   GPL for the executables (Murray Cumming)
 - allow dictionary XML file to specify its own DTD file (Vivien Malerba)
 - Bug fixes: #421986, #421986, #420306, #410200, #427605, #407908, #417249 (Carsten Clark, Baris Cicek,
   Vivien Malerba
 - Translations:
	- dz (Pema Geyleg)
	- lt (Gintautas Miliauskas)
	- ar (Djihed Afifi)

libgda 2.99.6, 2007-03-23

 - Merged several libraries into one for efficiency and because of inter-dependencies (yselkowitz,
   Gustavo R. Montesino, Christopher Taylor)
 - More explicit API function names (Murray Cumming)
 - Applications can now check installed DBMS providers (yselkowitz)
 - C# bindings removed from the libgda's module (Murray Cumming)
 - Added regression tests for SQL parsing and delimiting (Vivien Malerba)
 - Reworked SQL delimiter and made the SQL parser report non parsed characters (Vivien Malerba)
 - Embedded SQLite is now 3.3.13 (Vivien Malerba)
 - Added configure tests to work around changes in the MDB API (yselkowitz)
 - Improved WIN32 building for Cygwin and MinGW (yselkowitz, Gustavo R. Montesino, Christopher Taylor)
 - Bug fixes: #407064, #411811, #314732, #390609, #353404, #411984, #349548, #412122, #411811
   (Leonardo Boshell, yselkowitz, Armin Burgmeier, Daniel Espinosa, Murray Cumming, Christopher Taylor,
   Vivien Malerba)
 - Lots of minor bug fixes
 - Translations:
	- new dz translation (Pema Geyleg)
	- sv (Daniel Nylander)
	- en_GB (David Lodge)
	- it (Marco Ciampa)

libgda 2.99.5, 2007-02-12

 - Correct a linker error when using the (recently renamed to)
   gda_query_field_value_get_is_parameter() function.
   I'm doing a quick extra release because I imagine that the effects of using
   an implicitly-declared function could be odd.

libgda 2.99.4, 2007-02-12

 - GdaQuery: Renamed gda_query_is_modif_query() to gda_query_is_modify_query().
   (Murray Cumming)
 - GdaQueryFieldValue: Added the is_parameter property
   (Daniel Espinosa)
 - GdaEntityField: Renamed get_data_type() vfunc to get_dict_type().
   (Daniel Espinosa)
 - GdaQueryField: Renamed get_data_type() vfunc to get_dict_type().
   (Daniel Espinosa)
 - GdaObject: Added the option for GdaObject sub-classes to copy the
   "name" property to the "id" one if the "id" is not set (used by the GdaParameter object)
   (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaDataModelQuery:
   - Correctly detect when it's not possible to get information about columns.
   - Added a "use_transaction" property to allow the object to start a transaction before
     running the modification SQL queries and to end it afterwards (so all the modifications are atomic).
   (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaDataModel: Added "reset" signal, emitted when the data model has completely changed.
   (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaDataProxy:
   - Added "re_init_done" signal, emitted when the proxied data model's number of columns changes.
   - Corrected a bug which prevented any modification to be applied to the proxied data model.
   - Added gda_data_proxy_get_n_modified_rows().
   (Vivien Malerba)
 - Improvements to _new() functions for language bindings, such as C++:
   GdaParameterList,  (Johannes Schmid, Openismus)
 - Make type checks more flexible, allowing use of derived GTypes by
   language bindings: (Armin Burgmeier, Openismus)
 - Use enum types instead of guint or gulong for flags, matching the
   conventions used in GTK+, and making the API clearer: GdaQuery, GdaObjectRef
   (Murray Cumming, Openismus)
 - Use specific types for property and signal parameter registrations, and use specific signal marshallers.
   This should be more robust, and is needed by language bindings.
   (Murray Cumming, Openismus)
 - Correct all remaining installation location conflicts with libgda 1.2.
   (Leonardo Boshell)
 - Correct the check for the gamin version.
   (Leonardo Boshell)
 - gda-sharp (mono bindings) updated.
   (Daniel Espinosa)
 - Added tests. (Vivien Malerb)
 - Win32 build improvements. (Brecht Sanders)
 - MDB provider: Attempt to fix the build for more recent versions of the MDB API.
   (Murray Cumming)


libgda 2.99.3, 2007-01-23

 - Build fixes:
   - With gamin/fam. (Murray Cumming)
   - removed unnecessary libxslt dependency. (Vivien Malerba)
   - gda-sharp binding fixes. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Fixed many compiler warnings. (Murray Cumming)
   - Replace use of deprecated sys_errlist() with strerror().
     (Joseph Sacco, Bug #353729)
   - Win32 build fixes. (yselkowitz, Bug #314732)
   - Darwin (MacOS X) build fixes. (Min Sik Kim, Bug #382933)
 - GdaConfig: Handle the GDA_DSN_LIST_IN_MEMORY environment variable.
   When defined, initial DSN list will be loaded from the filename specified
   in that environment variable, and the DSN list modifications will not be
   written to a file. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaQueryFieldValue: can now render parameters in SQL with the :param_name
   syntax, as used by Oracle. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaBlobOp: New object, for improved blob handling. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaQuarkList: gda_quark_list_add_from_string():
   Prevent a crash when the connection string has a final ; character.
   (Andrea Zagli, Bug #317831)
 - GdaQuery:
   - Allow use of derived types, for language bindings. (Armin Burgmeier)
   - Avoid memory corruption. (Chris Shoemaker, Bug #341061)
 - GdaQueryFieldField: The field_name property is now readable. (Vivien Malerba)
 - GdaServerProvider:
   - Added the escape_string() and unescape_string() virtual methods. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Removed unimplemented gda_server_provider_create_blob() and
     gda_server_provider_fetch_blob_by_id() functions.  (Murray Cumming)
 - Removed unused "prop" properties. (Murray Cumming)
 - Spelling and grammar corrections. (Clytie Siddall, bug #352122)

 - Providers:
   - FreeTDS: Build fixes. (Leonardo Boshell)
   - MySQL:
     - Slight speed optimization. (Esteban Sanchez)
     - Fixed a bug with FK reporting in the CONSTRAINTS schema report.
       Added the "bit" data type as a synonym to "tinyint"
       removed GDA_TYPE_BLOB reference as MySQL does not support blobs.
       (Vivien Malerba)
   - Oracle: Major improvments, including blob handling. (Vivien Malerba)
   - Postgres
     - Fix failure of current transaction when trying to delete a
     nonexisting blob Oid
     - Improved GdaBinary handling.
     (Vivien Malerba)
   - Sqlite: Update Sqlite sources to 3.3.10.
   - BDB and ODBC: Correct a cast (Hans de Goede, bug #366694)
2007-08-04 11:13:37 +00:00

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GNU Data Access (GDA) is an attempt to provide uniform access to different
kinds of data sources (databases, information servers, mail spools, etc).
It is a complete architecture that provides all you need to access your
data. It is defined by a set of CORBA interfaces as generic as possible
(but very powerful at the same time) so that any kind of data source
can be accessed through them.
Libgda is an interface to the GDA architecture, providing a nice wrapper
around the CORBA interfaces, both for the client and the server parts. It
also provides a bunch of tools to help you both in the development and
management of your data sources, all done through the GDA model's set of
CORBA interfaces.
Libgda was part of the GNOME-DB project, but has been separated from it
to allow non-GNOME applications to be developed based on it.