Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On 17-11-2012 09:47, marius adrian popa wrote: >> >Redirects and FAQs can be refreshed , Memory can be refreshed >> >Documentation can be updated , we can't live in the ib 1.0 - 4.0 era forever >> >symlinks can be created at install times for oldtimers >> > >> >Times changed from the Vax years and people request up to date >> >documentation and majority use a gui usually >> >flamerobin , ibexpert ... even the core devels
> Although all that is true, it is a risk you take and a cost the > community will need to absorb. On Linux at least, links can be provided so that no existing distributed installations are broken. I don't use the command line stuff often in other scripts, but I CAN see a situation where legacy systems could be using command line functions and the original developers are no longer around. But I certainly much prefer underline to dash as a separator, and defining a clean prefix that can be searched for where symlinks ARE still supporting the old style simply begs that the same prefix is maintained? > (long gone are the days of 8.3 filenames) They are still present in FAT based storage ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
