The problem is that CG R&D lacks resources.<br>In order to offer a fix, CG R&D has to redirect resources to do R&D, do that fix, and QA it as well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:59 AM, David Brennan <<a href="mailto:dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz">dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Yeah, that's a valid reason... sounds like people were using the
db driver for a database other than the one it was designed for.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">That said I think there is still a good case for CodeGear
offering a fix for it if it isn't too hard. CodeGear aren't Microsoft, they can't
dictate things (and even Microsoft irk me everytime they force me to use IE to
access their internal partner/SPLA/etc websites) and part of their strength
needs to be working with a wide range of other tools.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">David.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz" target="_blank">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz" target="_blank">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Vowles<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 20 May 2008 7:37 p.m.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] DBX4 drivers for firebird</div></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">The old versions talked to
InterBase, that it worked with Firebird was serendipity....</p><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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<p>2008/5/20 David Brennan <<a href="mailto:dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz" target="_blank">dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz</a>>:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">On the other hand SQL Server
also competes with Interbase... yet Codegear<br>
haven't yet decided to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to let<br>
Delphi talk with it.<br>
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New versions of Delphi should talk to everything that old versions do IMO.<br>
If they don't then there should be a good reason for it (eg if the database<br>
is no longer in serious use which doesn't apply to Firebird).</p>
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