On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:38:19 +0100 Tony Whyman <tony.why...@mccallumwhyman.com> wrote:
> Paul, > > I am not surprised that you wrote "it is more difficult than I thought". > When I set out to upgrade IBX for Lazarus to the new Firebird 3 OO API, I > thought that it would be a relatively straightforward task. :-) I know you have done some great work with IBX2 and I certainly don't have any desire to emulate it. Have you thought about putting this project onto github? It will get a lot more traction and other developers will find it easier to contribute patches. > The real question is who is the audience for the examples? Is it the > application programmer or is it the maintainers of packages such as IBPP, > Jaybird and the Firebird Pascal API? The answer to that question should > determine your objectives for the examples. I believe the audience is the application programmer in general rather than maintainers of packages. Simple examples that demonstrate the basics. As far as Object Pascal is concerned the old C api was too cumbersome to use in a quick application. The new api fits nicely with OP. For example, the two samples that I have converted so far - 02-update.pas and 03-select.pas - take up about the same number of lines of code as the C++ versions. But they do need a few helper units (but nothing cumbersome). To me that is impressive - It is now quite feasible to knock out a quick app that uses the new api in just a few lines of code. Nothing extra needs to be installed - just tell the compiler where to find Firebird.pas, libfbclient and the location of a few helper units. This would have been impossible with the old api. So I think one of the aims of these examples is to demonstrate the simplicity they bring to programming firebird applications in any language that supports the new api. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
