On 2/29/2016 2:19 AM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
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Question: Does this problem would also affect the compiled client
library? Or do you guys also think nobody using Win XP/2003 will needs
to connect to Firebird? <g>
First, the discussion is about a version which, extrapolating from
previous release dates, is not likely to be released before 2020.
Second, IIUC, you should still be able to connect to a 4.0 server with
3.0 client library.
That said, using a different compiler for server and client sounds like
asking for trouble to me. (On the other hand, the most recent Windows
IDE I have experience with is Borland C++ Builder 6 so you don't have
to take me too seriously.)
I'm not at all sure that having "official" Firebird compilers is that good
of an idea.
The basic principle is that the code should work on a wide variety of
compilers. My experience has always been that if an unfamiliar compiler
produces errors, warning, or unexpected results, the probably has almost
always been with the code, not the compiler, usually a latent bug prepared
to expose itself later. With an official compiler, the temptation will
always be to write off an unexpected results from an "unofficial" compiler
as an aberration.
The primary question is always which platforms to support. If the project
chooses to support a platform, the code should compile on whatever had been
the generally accepted compilers when that platform was active.
There is often a drive to use every possible C++ feature (and Firebird has
this problem in spaces), and the availability of new C++ language features
and compilers to support them, but the desire to use new language features
should not dictate which platforms or compilers to use. Yes, there are
cases where this can be painful. Sun's refusal to support function
prototypes required substantial (and ugly) workarounds, but the value of
function prototypes on most platforms made the cost acceptable.
There are many, many fewer platforms now than in the past. At one point,
Interbase was supporting 19 more or less incompatible Unixes as every dying
computer company tried to establish their own definitive balance between
System V and BSD (and the introduction of Posix made everything much
worse).
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Jim Starkey
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