Re: Firebird not experimental

On 26/08/2024 20:06, Juan C. Sanz wrote: TLTR. Propose Take Firebird out of experimental mode and explain author’s opinion about current situation of Firebird implementation, and the benefits of put it in service. Background Base is undoubtedly the ugly duckling of LibreOffice. The re

Re: Firebird not experimental

*Juan C. Sanz* El 27/08/2024 a las 12:29, Julien Nabet escribió: Hello Juan, According to TDF#51780 /(Database-Firebird-Default) - [META] Default to Firebird not HSQLDB in Base (for new_files)/, there currently do not appear to be a

Re: Firebird not experimental

El 27/08/2024 a las 16:48, Robert Großkopf escribió: Hi *, Moreover 1) we still use FB 3.0.7 whereas 2 major releases have been published (4 and 5) and version 6 is in dev. At minimum, we should upgrade to version 5 to avoid trying to fix bugs on a old FB version. What would happen with

Re: Firebird not experimental

Le 28/08/2024 à 11:39, Ilmari Lauhakangas a écrit : Thanks Ilmari, I knew I had seen something somewhere, but couldn't for the life of me remember where ! Best, Alex Yes it does. Quoting from my reply to you in 2022 on board-discuss: seems the problem existed before Aug 2016, but not any

Re: Firebird not experimental

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > - the embedded HSQLDB is platform agnostic (...) > My understanding was that the same is not guaranteed for embedded FB > due to the endian-(n/m)ess of the architectures. It was not before August 2016, when we were using the F

Re: Firebird not experimental

On 28.8.2024 12.32, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Hi all, +1 to everything Mike wrote, with one further observation: - the embedded HSQLDB is platform agnostic which means that one can share it across OSes, and to the extent that a JDK is available, is readable on all of the main platforms for w

Re: Firebird not experimental

Hi all, +1 to everything Mike wrote, with one further observation: - the embedded HSQLDB is platform agnostic which means that one can share it across OSes, and to the extent that a JDK is available, is readable on all of the main platforms for which a LO release is available (and even some

Re: Firebird not experimental

On 27.08.2024 19:48, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi *, Moreover 1) we still use FB 3.0.7 whereas 2 major releases have been published (4 and 5) and version 6 is in dev. At minimum, we should upgrade to version 5 to avoid trying to fix bugs on a old FB version. What would happen with all the o

Re: Firebird not experimental

Hi *, Moreover 1) we still use FB 3.0.7 whereas 2 major releases have been published (4 and 5) and version 6 is in dev. At minimum, we should upgrade to version 5 to avoid trying to fix bugs on a old FB version. What would happen with all the old Firebid databases then? Might be a good i

Re: Firebird not experimental

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 04:48:16PM +0200, Robert Großkopf wrote: >> 1) we still use FB 3.0.7 whereas 2 major releases have been published (4 >> and 5) and version 6 is in dev. >> At minimum, we should upgrade to version 5 to avoid trying to fix bugs >> on a old FB version. > What would happen wi

Re: Firebird not experimental

*Juan C. Sanz* El 26/08/2024 a las 23:28, Thorsten Behrens escribió: Hola Juan, Juan C. Sanz wrote: In considering the above, I propose to the ESC (or whomever it may concern): * Take Firebird out of experimental mode. Although it is not strictly necessary for it to be the default datab

Re: Firebird not experimental

Hello Juan, According to TDF#51780 /(Database-Firebird-Default) - [META] Default to Firebird not HSQLDB in Base (for new_files)/, there currently do not appear to be any bugs that actually affect the functionality of the Firebird data

Re: Firebird not experimental

On 27.8.2024 0.28, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Hola Juan, Juan C. Sanz wrote: In considering the above, I propose to the ESC (or whomever it may concern): * Take Firebird out of experimental mode. Although it is not strictly necessary for it to be the default database, I think it would be

Re: Firebird not experimental

Hola Juan, Juan C. Sanz wrote: > In considering the above, I propose to the ESC (or whomever it may concern): > > * Take Firebird out of experimental mode. Although it is not strictly >necessary for it to be the default database, I think it would be >preferable. > > * Decouple HSQLDB m

Firebird not experimental

TLTR. Propose Take Firebird out of experimental mode and explain author’s opinion about current situation of Firebird implementation, and the benefits of put it in service. Background Base is undoubtedly the ugly duckling of LibreOffice. The reasons why, in my opinion Base is not more u