Re-[Firebird-devel] Firebird version and Interbase/third-party tools compatibility for v1.0 and beyond

[Naoto G. <n-...@ji...>]

Mark O'Donohue <mar...@lu...> さんが、2001/9/21 8:28:8に送られ
た
　　---“Re-[Firebird-devel] Firebird version and Interbase/third-party tools 
compatibility for v1.0 and beyond”によりますと
> 
> Hi All
> 
> Along with the discussions about the details of the next release and the
> Admin group has also been discussing the best methods of addressing the
> current Firebird compatibility issues for third-party tools and path for
> a longer term solution.
> 
> Here are the decisions which we arrived at:
> 
> 1 - For v1.0, the "version string" returned by the server will be fixed
> as "6.2.0.xxx".  The engine and install packages will, however, carry the
> version number of "v1.0.0"
> 
> 2 - The Windows install packages will be changed to ensure that they
> will overwrite any existing client libraries, regardless of version.
> Thus, ensuring that the latest Firebird client has been installed
> (instead of keeping the old IB 4.x/5.x/6.x version). And if possible the
> install will rename the existing dll rather than deleting it.
> 
> 3 - The v1.0 Server/Client API will be extended to allow for tools to
> interogate the server to determine the engine flavor (Firebird vs.
> Interbase) and the 'real' Firebird version number (i.e. "1.0.0.xxx").
> Full details of the API changes will be made available in the next
> couple of days.
> 
> 4 - To address backward compatibility, the next major release of
> Firebird will listen on two ports: 3050 for InterBase(r) compatible
> clients, where the engine will provide an InterBase(r) compatible
> interface; and another port, yet to be decided upon, for new Firebird
> client connections.  The new port will return "1.0.0" version strings,
> and allow the introduction of Firebird specific features (such as
> compressed over-the-wire protocol, more robust logon protocol, etc...)
> that would otherwise break backward compatibility.   It is expected the
> name of the Firebird client shared object/dynamic link library will also
> change to a Firebird specific name at this time.  The new Firebird
> client will allow connection to either the compatible 3050 port or the
> new FirebirdSQL server port.
> 
> 
> Thanks to all who participated in the discussion and helped resolve 
> these issues.
> 
> 
> Posted on behalf of:
> 
> The Firebird Admin Team (The FAT)
> 
> by Mark.
> 
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