Hi, At April-07-11, 9:44 AM, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> I believe some form of queryInterface/upgradeInterface is required in > the API. But I don't think we should mimic IUnknown precisely without > really strong reasons. First of all, we don't need GUIDs as interface > version identifiers, as our objects are limited to Firebird only usage. > And if Delphi is the only reason to be binary compatible with IUnknown, > then I'm against it. Times change and now I'd pay more attention to > Java/.NET along with Python/PHP/whatever than think how to please those > poor Delphi users ;-) Whatever the new style of the Firebird API will be, I'm sure that Delphi will be able to handle it, as long as the data connection developers(IB Objects, FIB Plus, Upscene, Embarcadero, Devart and others) are kept in the loop. And, I've just learned that the new Delphi 64-bit compiler(hopefully released later this year) will only use fastcall for DLL interfaces(even Microsoft has that same restriction for 64-bit). I remember at one point in all of this discussion, there was talks about stdcall and cdecl for the DLL interfaces, but with Delphi 64-bit, it will only support fastcall. And, fastcall is also supported by Delphi 32-bit. -- Best regards, Daniel Rail Senior Software Developer ACCRA Solutions Inc. (www.accra.ca) ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
