Eric Day

libdrizzle 0.3 Released

I’m pleased to announce a new version of libdrizzle! This is mostly a bug fixing and maintenance release before I start in on more significant development. One of the new features I added was a hook to be able to use your own I/O event mechanism rather than the default poll(). This will allow you to use libraries like libevent, which can be useful when dealing with a large number of file descriptors, or to mix with other file descriptors in your application (for example, you could listen on other fd’s alongside the non-blocking Drizzle/MySQL socket connections). There is not much for examples or documentation yet with this feature, but for now you can email or find me in #drizzle on irc.freenode.net if you would like to know more.

One of the next steps with libdrizzle is a better protocol abstraction, since the Drizzle protocol is diverging quite a bit from how the MySQL protocol works. With these abstractions, it will also be possible to easily add other database-like protocols (where column/row/fields make sense). I’m also going to start looking into more memory optimizations and performance tuning.

One Response to "libdrizzle 0.3 Released"

1. LenZ says:

   June 2, 2009 at 7:31 am

   Congratulations on the new release! Binary RPM packages for various distributions will be available from the openSUSE build service shortly – I just submitted the updated package:

   http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=libdrizzle

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