If you're interested in the ruby-frontbase, ruby-db2, or postgres-pr projects, or would like to maintain a DBD, please continue to read.

Phew! The next bugfix release (which is coming after we rework some parts of the Oracle driver) is 0.2.0. It's the result of over 100 commits and over 350 DBD and DBI assertions have been added, along with a test suite (which previously did not exist).

0.2.0 will only cover fixes to DBI, the MySQL, PostgreSQL (which has moved to the 'pg' low level driver), SQLite 2.x (which is a brand new Ruby-based DBD) and 3.x (thanks to a patch by Jun Mukai), and Oracle DBD's. It will still remain a setup.rb-based project. Ruby Gems are a target for 0.4.0, which will be a true feature release.

The other DBDs at this point are considered Unsupported. There is simply too much scope for 1 or 2 people to tackle, and testing on Windows in particular is a process that I don't have the resources to tackle. We are looking for maintainers for these DBDs and will officially remove these DBDs from the project in 0.4.0.

The postgres-pr, ruby-db2, and ruby-frontbase low-level drivers (which are currently a part of the Ruby/DBI project) are out of the scope of Ruby/DBI and it was never an intention of myself or Chris Maujean to maintain them. If you would like to take these projects, please inform one of us via email.

Lastly, thanks for being patient. We'll have a new release RSN. :)