Hi, On 16 August 2012 04:39, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > > Change in naming, (either root (gds->fbclient) or version numbers)
For God's sake!!! The gds -> fbclient was a once off deal after Interbase was released to the open-source world and shortly thereafter retracted that decision. The open source project continued (to Borlands detriment), but to differentiate their work from the commercial Interbase, they changed the library name. A once of deal - as if this happens even second day! F*cken ridiculous argument. As for version numbers... Major version numbers also take long to change. How long has v2 been the major version number in Firebird, FPC, etc? > non > standard directories (the $prefix/lib/mysql/ has been a problem in the > past). MYSQL is a mess, and my discussion about database libraries are limited to Firebird only, as that is the only database we use in commercial work. As for the location of 99.99% of libraries under Linux.... that is defined by the OS and normally falls under /usr/lib or /usr/lib64, and it has been like that since forever! > And always, always, we work with 6 months to an year latency. If we were > finalizing 2.6.2 now, and a distro had already changed in some devel > version, it will probably not make 2.6.2. Yes, and if you know anything amount maintaining commercial software, you would know that NOBODY (in there right mind) would instantly jump onto a new major version library change. It will probably require some software update, lots of testing, new installs being generated, more testing etc... another 6+ months latency. So again you "fear" something that is not really an issue at all. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
