On 1 Aug 2009, at 11:07pm, Fred Williams wrote: > SQLite was and has always been designed to be extremely cross platform > portable, bare bones in both footprint and implementation. It is, and > should remain so. If someone wants to take the open source and > implement it > in something like C# or Java, I think Dr. Hipp should contact them and > politely ask them to change the name, because the end result will be > neither > that portable (C#) or efficient (Java.) MHO.
I don't have a problem with a port to other languages. In fact porting things to other platforms and other languages is a great way to discover bugs in the original: first you have to actually read the code, and second you find things that work only by coincidence. But porting is like making babies: the enthusiasm that goes into the original work is not always reflected in maintenance. And I hope that Dr. Hipp is going to add some features or fix some bugs in the C version of SQLite. At that point the port is either going to be incompatible, or require maintenance from someone who understands it. So I would want to be sure that's going to happen before basing any big project on the port. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
