Oleg Deribas wrote: > Hello, > > Mercea Paul said the following on 02.07.2007 21:08: > >> Could Fb.Net Provider have release number specific to Firebird server? >> If Current provider support all facilities for FB 2.1 Beta 1, could have >> same release number as fb server (2.1)? It's more easy to know what provider >> is compatible with witch server! > > Reasonable idea, IMO...
Let me express my experiences from the Jaybird perspective (Java JDBC driver). We have tried to use this approach in Jaybird, and at the very beginning it went well (version 1.5.x of Jaybird and Firebird 1.5, though the point releases were different - now we have FB 1.5.4 and Jaybird 1.5.6, but this is something you have to live with). But then during release of version 2.0 we experienced issue that Jaybird 2.0 was ready quite long time and we waited few monthes on release of Firebird 2.0 (it was planned to happen end of 2005). Then it was decided to release Jaybird 2.0 without waiting on FB 2.0, which happened in November 2005, and the Firebird 2.0 Release happened one year later. Naturally, Jaybird 2.0 did not support new features from FB 2.0. So, _unless_ there is coordinated release plan for the whole Firebird Project _and_ the release dates will be met by all subproject under any condition, tieing the driver release numbers to the Firebird RDBMS release numbers is not reallistic. Roman P.S. BTW, the next Jaybird release will be 2.2... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider
