On 30 Jan 2017, at 12:06am, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how big the market is, but there are older computers in use in > areas that might be running older OS because anything newer is too bloated. The emphasis is shifted to non-modern compilers because a large proportion of the literally billions of installations of SQLite are on embedded computers, not the sort of computers people sit at and type on. SQLite is inside TVs, TV recorders, WiFi routers, Point Of Sale tills, elevator controllers, SatNav units, weather monitoring stations and, my recent favourite discovery, those machines in car parks which take your money and print your ticket. Some machines of the above types. Probably not all of them. Those machines use small cheap processors, designed a long time ago, which are addressed with old compilers which support old versions of C. Ten years old is not uncommon, especially if the device doesn’t need to support a graphical user interface. So a round of bringing SQLite3 up to date to support shiny new versions of C is likely to introduce problems for many programmers unless you’ve hired the sort of C lawyer who has all the changes in his or her head. Better to make changes just when people point out problems. SQLite4 can be a new start, with a stated set of compilers supported. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
