James Starkey wrote: > [...] > Carlos has enumerated a set of acceptable possibilities, none > of which is overwhelming difficult. I can see no constructive > reason why his request should not be accomodated other than > contempt for users.
Despite my objections to the technique (that it could, quite literally, become completely - instead of just mostly - futile overnight), I do have reasons for agreeing with the above. I still haven't forgiven Firebird for the abrupt change of alias ambiguity rules from v1.5 to v2.0. The particular circumstances of the time meant that this was hugely inconvenient to one of my largest projects. Had some migration mechanism been provided the change over could have been handled on a gradual basis and the project could have stayed current with Firebird. I'd like to argue that developers have already had years to find a better solution than deleting the source, but really the only better solution is UDR, and developers need significant time to migrate. So if you want projects to stay current, you need to give them a changeover period to move to the better solution. -- Geoff Worboys Telesis Computing Pty Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
