Przemyslaw Czerpak wrote:
This is what I can see after rather short code look up mostly on client side. In summary to resolve these problems we will have to rewrite most of current LetoDB code dropping xHarbour and old Harbour support. I haven't analyzed this code very deeply but seems that we can keep only very small part of existing LetoDB code. For me it is much easier to create new project with such functionality from scratch then trying to update current LetoDB code. For sure it will take less time and I will make much less mistakes so I do not find big motivation to work on it. I know myself and if I start to update it then I'll end with completely rewritten code but using the same project name and original authors' copyrights.
That is a shame.
I do not need such remote server for my own use - all my applications are executed fully on the server side so I do not want to reduce it to ADS like level. In the past I started to work on NETRDD and I documented the server and client part and defined basic communication protocol but so far I haven't time to finish it. Seeing what happens with my code in xHarbour I also do not find big motivation to finish it and public as free OpenSource project but I also do not have any precise plans about commercial releasing. Just simply I haven't taken the decision yet. Maybe I'll finish it and release as close source binary library which can be freely used with Harbour but only with applications which do not use any commercial libraries. Or maybe I'll invest much more time in it and try to write full RDBMS with transactions, SQL support and query optimizer and release it as commercial project. I do not know yet but I think I should inform you about it because maybe in the future I will not be on neutral position here so you should take your really own decision about LetoDB future in Harbour contrib code and my opinion and above text is only small help which you can ignore.
I personally would be willing to contribute monetarily, which of course, is an easy thing to say, until you see the price. I would like to hear the opinions of others in this regard. In the past, I have toyed with the idea of asking whether you would be open to such an idea, but refrained because I thought it might be rude.
On the assumption that you did follow a commercial release, I would ask that at whatever price, or license arrangement, that the source be made available. It is a great comfort knowing that should the worst come to the worst, there is some way to investigate and fix problems.
I see once again that your work has been incorporated in xHarbour without proper attribution (although I have not actually looked at the changelog - only the e-mails), so I sympathise with your reservations.
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