Hi,
The deprecated 't' parameter in NCI broke Zavolaj (the Perl 6 native
call interface). This in turn broke various modules, including MiniDBI.
Looking at:
https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commit/75e2b4c94d602d3d7e8af4b679c325c8ec8d3fd9#src/nci/extra_thunks.nci
It seems that the signatures for e.g. mysql database connection were
removed, not updated! The deprecation notice doesn't provide anything
that seems to help with our use case. Replacing t with S seems to lead
to segfaults; a further look shows that seems not to be passing a C
string or even the string buffer, but the STRING * pointer. None of the
examples that use the 't' parameter have been updated.
Seriously, what the hell? I'm all for improvements. I'm fine with
deprecations if I'm given a clue what to do to get things wroking again.
But a removal of a feature used by *Perl 6 database access* with no
instructions or updated examples that I can find, or maybe not even an
actual replacement? Please tell me I'm missing something obvious
somewhere.... Or just revert the patch that removed it.
Thanks,
/jnthn
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