[okfn-help] vdm: mysql compatibility

Sat Aug 21 09:30:03 BST 2010

On 20 August 2010 21:35, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>> If you use mercurial then forking onto a public bitbucket repo would
>> definitely be the best way to go for these kind of patches.
>
> I don't know much about either bitbucket or hg, but I've tried this.
>
> My fixes are here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/faassen/vdm
>
> There are three changesets, the last two are for doing the **kw (one
> is just a CHANGELOG.txt update that I forgot), and the first is for
> doing the Unicode(36).

This is great. We'll pull, test and apply. Going forward we might want
to have a simple way to configure different database backends so we
can test against each one automatically!

> I wonder whether the Unicode(36) change is going to change existing
> databases, however;
> this needs to be tested.

Yes, indeed :) In the past we've marked things like this in the
CHANGELOG with **BREAKING CHANGE**.

Rufus