Tom,
> We're almost in October and the FB3 beta release date still shows as August
> 31.
>
> SMB 3, memory management, etc., etc - all very interesting discussions but
> how are they leading to the highly-anticipated and much needed beta
> release?
While I appreciate your frustration at the lateness of the beta release, and it
is appropriate to remind/prompt the project team on this subject, the
discussion of memory management is not an "academic" one.
The release needs to have good performance, the issues which Nikolay identified
must be addressed in order for final release.
Given this, IMO holding off beta until all manior features/known issues are
addressed makes a lot of sense -- why release a beta if the testing that will
occur would need to be re-done if a major change like memory management is
changed?
Project developers and volunteers time is a limited resource and needs to be
considered.
Finally, to compare the Firebird project against MySQL is not fair --
MySQL/Percona is able to leverage the significant licensing revenue which their
ownership of the GPL code provides (no commercial product will ship without a
non-GPL license for MySQL -- which has a retail price of $2000 / server /
year). {Remember GPL is 'infectious' so any software which interfaces with it,
must itself be released as GPL} That revenue stream provides a lot of
flexibility for hiring devel related resources.
Sean
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