On 16-8-2012 5:31, Marco van de Voort wrote: > It's not a FPC problem, it is a linux problem that apps are not > crossdistribution distributable. Creating a lot of drama if you see a > minor discrepancy here 6 months after release won't benefit anyone. > > Just like we had a similar drama discussions about adding fbembedded 9 > months ago, we'll just rehash this charade in 9 months for some other > library where a new version came out or where naming changed.
Don't know what drama you refer to exactly (quick search through the archives on fbembed showed nothing relevant) but for the Windows side: fbembed.dll is a DLL distributed by the Firebird installer, just like fbclient.dll (and, if you go the masochistic route, if you check the box on installation, perhaps gds32.dll will also be installed). I don't see how sqldb not searching for fbembed.dll by default and letting devs search for this manually in their program for every program makes things easier. As for Linux: if libfbembed is distributed by the distro packages... well, yes, it might be a "drama" to add it to ibase60.inc, but doing things half way and leaving only libgds and libfbclient there will only confuse things more. Is a change every say 9 months really such a big problem? Why not add an FPC FAQ entry (if it's not already there) stating these problems and decisions, and say that mainstream library names will be added after name changes, but indicate the delay you mentioned. Either something like that or throw out the entire concept and force devs to specify library names in every program... _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
