From: Ulf Wendel
Date: May 7 2009 4:18pm
Subject: Re: Beta out, GA out, ... what is next?
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Christian Koch schrieb:
> Ulf Wendel schrieb:
>> However, where shall we go from here: what do you want to see in 1.1, 
>> 1.5, 2.0 or 3.0? What do you need?
>>
> 
> What I really would like to see is one of the features already mentioned 
> in the wiki:
> 
> "Please consider C++ references for Statements, ResultSets, and 
> exceptions, instead of pointers to heap memory. Considering the possible 
> exceptions, it quickly becomes a hassle to ensure that everything is 
> freed correctly. I think C++ programmers are accustomed to the compiler 
> doing all of that for them."
> 
> As C++ doesn't have any garbage collection using pointers to the 
> Statements, ResultSets,... is very dangerous.

A bit like http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=44703 ? I'll wait for Lawrin 
and Andrey to reply. If we need to do API changes, we should make them 
in the 1.x series.

Ulf

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