Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU again

[Mariusz Z. <ma...@so...>]

Konstantin Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Don't get me wrong but 2.6 dates back to 97/98.
> 
> Was born about 95 like the twin of Win 95 (-

I've checked the date on the box with 2.6 I still own on my
shelf. It was update 5 so you're probably correct.


>> I know many
>> places that are atill running 2.4 in production, and they have
>> their compelling reasons to do so, but I think it's time to
>> think about Solaris 10.
> 
> 
> Especialy on AMD64 in 64 bit mode?

Well, I've just got my first V20z Opteron based box and I'm going
to build FB on it.
There are still many 32bit Xeon based servers in production and
I don't expect they will die soon. Sparc is a diferent story and I'd
expect more Oracle installations on Sparc than any other databases.


> Unfortuanally the current code base of FB2 are moving closer and closer
> to gnu, Linux, Windos and Intel x386, when Solaris (sparc32/64 /AMD).
> Lets look to icu (which else of target support "lazy-load"), bitwize 
> operations - non BIG_ENDIAN. What else - x86 asm?

Yes I know as I spent a couple of weeks trying to build it on Solaris 10
using Sun's compilers. I did, but it was a real pain.

Maybe FB is biased toward Windows, I know, but with some effort we can
keep it portable enough. MySQL guys are doing a good job keeping their
server very portable, so it's doable, it's the matter of demand.

We can even try to get Sun involved as they are missing SQL database
(following Open Standards) in their distro.

>> Who on the alias is using FB on Solaris except me and Konstantin?
> 
> I saw about 1000 downloads Solaris x86 from sf.net

Are the statistics available for non-involved in the project on sf.net?
I wonder how many downloads come from Poland? You guys may need to know
that there is a growing user base of FB in Poland as more and more
applications use FB as a backend.

Just my 0.02PLN

Mariusz