On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "D. Richard Hipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:38 -0300, Gerson Luís Fontoura Vaz wrote:
> >> I'm using SQLite for the first time...
> >> 
> >> We are using SQLite version 2.8.15.
> >> 
> >
> > Why, oh why are you using 2.8.15 when 3.2.2 is known to be
> > faster, smaller, and to contain many more features??? 
> 
> Unfortunately, the switch from using 2.8 to 3.x is not entirely trivial for
> large projects.  

I can understand using 2.8 for legacy projects.  But notice that
the original poster is using SQLite "for the first time".  He
has no legacy to port.  Why would he *start* using an older
version of the code???

> When version 3.0.0 was release, the "News" indicated that:
> 
>    "The 2.8 series of SQLite will continue to be supported with bug fixes for
>     the foreseeable future."
> 
> >From your comments, it sounds like maybe the 2.8 series is no longer being
> officially supported.  Am I inferring correctly?
> 

2.8 continues to be supported.  Any critical bugs are fixed punctually.
But obscure and hard-to-reproduce memory leaks are given a rather low
priority.  (Unless you have a paid support contract :-))
-- 
D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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