Re: [Firebird-devel] Platform support in v3.0

[Helen B. <he...@tp...>]

At 06:29 AM 30/09/2007, Lester Caine wrote:
>Vlad Khorsun wrote:
> >> But then again if I'm the only person still supporting *15* year 
> old hardware
> >> perhaps I have to put up with not being able to use newer 
> versions of Firebird :(
> >
> >     Perhaps i missing something but why you can't use 2.x client 
> on your old
> > hardware as Alex suggests ? I don't expect we'll broke 
> compatibility between
> > 1.x\2.x clients and 3.x servers
>
>Simply because we keep being told *TO* update the clients when problems arise
>with older ones or selecting a particular client to make certain functions
>work? But I am going back to Interbase days ;)

Not a compatibility issue, though.  Sometimes bugs in the client 
library get fixed.  So if, e.g., a support issue comes up where 
events don't work properly, an initial suspect would be that the 
client lib in use might the IB 5.6 or Fb 1.5.2 version...

No client older than 2.0 is going to work with Fb 2's implementation 
of IPServer, so there's potential for support issues there which 
won't affect remote clients but will affect deployed systems where 
e.g. backup is done by running gbak locally, in or not in a batch job 
that has gbak making an IPServer connection....

Helen