[ANN] fbclient - Firebird for Lua v0.4.0

[Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@...>]

Good news everyone!

[Sorry for barging in on the Lua 5.2 release party so brutally, but...]

I'm pleased to announce another release of the fbclient Lua binding!

In this release:
 - stabilization of the public API + documentation updates
 - added automated test suite bundle for testing against fbclient and
fbembed 2.0.5, 2.1.3, 2.5rc1 on winxp sp1+ (soon on linux32 too)
 - added rockspec (http://fbclient.googlecode.com/hg/fbclient-0.4.0-1.rockspec)
 - unified blob API for both OOP and procedural interfaces
 - revealed more undocumented DPB, TPB, DB_INFO, etc. tags w/the help
of the Firebird devs
 - OOP interfaces now use LOOP for extensibility
 - the blob API is now fully separated and must be explicitly loaded
 - housekeeping (bug fixing, refactoring, more asserts)

Short term goals (next revision):
 - unit-testing error cases; adding even more asserts and contracts
 - prepare and run the new test suite bundle on linux32

Mid term goals (next version):
 - implement a metadata abstraction API and a database navigational
interface above that
 - add int64 <=> decimal string conversion as alternative to using
bignum libraries
 - trace API: trace list decoder and trace stream decoder

Thanks to Ann Harrison, Dmitry Yemanov and Alex Peshkoff for help on
the undocumented tags.

Regards,
Cosmin.