Oratcl change history


Version 1.0,  July, 1993

     First general release, borrowed on concepts from my Sybtcl package.


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Version 2.0, November, 1993

     Change oratcl.c to support Tcl 7.0+.  Change wosql for new pack
     syntax in Tk 3.3.
     Add oracancel to man page, and fixed reference to "errortxt"

     New - Makefile and appinit.sed script.

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Version 2.1, February, 1994

     Change oratcl.c - add optional commands to "orafetch" command, 
     add colprecs and colscales to oracols (thanks to Dan Schenck); 
     change init function to (int); avoid possible core dump in oralogon 
     when connect to server failed; change how cursor handles are made

     Wosql - use new orafetch when possible

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Version 2.11, April, 1994

     Change oratcl.c - fix orasql to only call parse_columns() after DML,
     fixes bogus error in V7 after DDL.

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Version 2.2, October, 1994

     Change oratcl.c - change default nullvalue to "default", which performs
     current behavior, set oramsg(nullvalue) "" will give true null elements
     even for numeric data (potential incompatibility.)  clean up left over
     public functions to Oratcl_xxxx.  add last parameter to orlon(), which
     caused connect problems for some.

     Change make/install to use autoconf.

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Version 2.3, August, 1995

     Change oratcl.c - support Tcl 7.4 release, hda area to support 64 bit
     Dec Alpha.  Always set oramsg(rows) to row processed count after
     oexec.  Fix bug in FetchAll that sometimes tries to reference beyond 
     actual columns.

     Change wosql - support Tk 4.0 release.

     Change make/install to use newer autoconf 2.2.  Check for __fstd.o on
     Solaris, and mili.exp on AIX.

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Version 2.4, September 1996

     Change oratcl.c - add support for Tcl 7.5 packages.  fix orafetchall
     to quote two occurance of substiution char, and to accept a user defined
     substitution char.  add oramsg(ociinfo) index for features of how oratcl
     was compiled.  add initialized flag check to prevent reinitializing on
     subsequent 'load'.

     Change wosql - add 'package require' for TclX.
     Include ODDIS as sample program.  

     changes to Makefile/configure - nearly a total rewrite, should allow
     Oratcl to be nearly independent of Tcl/Tk/TclX source directories.  Relies
     on Tcl/Tk/TclX to be installed properly, using tclConfig.sh (et.al) to
     get version numbers, library info, tclAppInit.c files, etc.  Also build
     libOratcl.so on request, using Oracle shared lib also.  Installs or
     updates and pkgIndex.tcl files in lib/tcl7.5.  Support Oracle 7.3.2
     libraries (libclient.a, etc.)

     New! - oratcl-capi, a C interface for Oratcl.  Experimental.  Feedback
     is welcome.

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Version 2.41, December 1996

     Change oratcl.c - zero out lda and hda before logon

     Configure/makefile - fix problem when --exec-prefix= is different from
     --prefix,  include extra paths in library search, include compile time
     lib search flag since linker may prefer shared libs over static when
     both are present.

     Change wosql - add server names from ~/.tnsnames.ora and Oracle home
     $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora


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Version 2.5, November 1997

     Change oratcl.c - add support for cursor variables returned by oraplexec,
     add 'parseonly'  option to orasql, add 'orabindexec' command, add 'async'
     option for orasql, add 'orapoll' and 'orabreak' commands, add windows
     .dll support, change orawritelong to allow writing of zero length file,
     add 'version' element to oramsg.  add tclvars to be bound on orafetch /w
     commands.  former keywords (async,parseonly,all,etc.) are now recognized
     as options (-async,-parseonly,-all,etc.)  check orafetch rc code for
     errors, return tcl_error on failure.  add atexit handler to call
     Oratcl_Kill, remove call to Oratcl_Kill on command deletion.
     Fix a problem in FetchAll where the argv[] command string is manipulated,
     caused problems in Tcl 8.0  Added 'rowid' element to oramsg array, valid
     after insert, update, delete, or select for update SQL statements.

     configure/makefile - configure: change default to --enable-shared,
     makefile:  now makes libOratcl with a version number.  reorganize 
     distribution directory with generic,unix,mac,win,doc,misc,samples 
     directories.  Add explicit link with '-lc', might fix some problems.

     win directory - windows makefile, .dll

     include Osql from Dan R. Schenck in samples

     wosql - modified to run without requiring TclX, remove unix-only
     code to allow to run in windows also.