On 7/21/05, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:25:05 +0300
> Alexandrov Alexandru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/21/05, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:51:12 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Because of the bug report I did some research on this as well.
> > > > Up to and including D4, a TDateTimeRec was used internally.
> > > > As of Delphi 5, TDateTime was used.
> > > >
> > > > Since the first FPC TDataset implementation was based on a D3 spec,
> > > > this explains the confusion.
> > >
> > > Yes, but FPC already used TDateTime internally, according to TDbf :-)
> >
> > It is not about SUPPORT_NEW_FIELDDATA, but
> > SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA.
> >
> > In fcp package, in dbf_common.inc it is defined
> > SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA but in
> > last package on sourceforge not.
> 
> I see, the backward compatible translation thingy. Why didn't you report this 
> to me ?
> 
> 'Official' TDbf has never had the SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA defined for FPC.
> 
> Micha
> 
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I have sent an patch (2 month ago) to improve the compatibility with
some older tdataset components.
I have included corrections to all related components: interbase,
mysql3 and 4, sqldb, tdbf.
I don't know who is maintainer for each component.

this was about tdbf:

--- dbase/dbf_common.inc        (revision 171)
+++ dbase/dbf_common.inc        (working copy)
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
   {$define SUPPORT_INT64}
   {$define SUPPORT_DEFAULT_PARAMS}
   {$define SUPPORT_NEW_TRANSLATE}
+  {$define SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA}
   {$define SUPPORT_NEW_FIELDDATA}
   {$define SUPPORT_FIELDDEF_TPERSISTENT}
   {$define SUPPORT_FIELDTYPES_V4} 

Alex

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