Re: [Firebird-devel] ReleaseNotes draft as found in RC5 win32 zip file

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

At 01:35 PM 5/08/2003 +0200, Olivier Mascia wrote:
>Dear Helen,
>
>This looks great !
>Here are some things which quickly caught my eyes.
>
>(1)
>The file in named "firebird_v15.ReleaseNotes.draft1.pdf".
>The first page reads "Draft 3".
>The footer reads "Draft 2".

Actually, it's all draft 1.  The others are datelines (2 August and 3 August).

>You'll just have to choose and decide :)

No, I'll let you choose.
The next one (in a day or two) will be draft2.

>Anyway the "draft" mention will of course disappear, but if you want us to 
>track changes between various versions of your draft, it's gonna be a 
>headache. :)
>
>(2)
>On page 4, the table has the following line.
>"Linux | Client library | libgds.so | libfbembed.so | AUTHOR ASKS WHY?!?!?!?"
>Sounds indeed curious.

Look in the next column - architecture.

>On page 2, you write the API library is now located in a shared library 
>named libfbclient.so anyway.

the Superserver kit.

>End of page 4 also confirms that on Linux "the client library is now named 
>libfbembed.so".

the Classic kit.  There are two ways in which libfbembed is the wrong name 
for this - 1) embedded server isn't available on linux and 2) even if it 
were available, embedded server is an embedded superserver, not classic.

>There is some clarification required on this.

Cleanup, I think it should be called.

>I'm not a Linux user, though I find strange that we have a separate 
>fbclient.dll and fbembed.dll on Win32 while Linux would have only a 
>libfbembed.so.
>
>I need more time to read closer the whole paper.

Read closely and critically, as a lot of it has been cobbled from the email 
lists, etc.  Also, this time, we got a lot of very good docco from Dmitry, 
Alex and Nickolay.  It's been harder this time in one way, in that there is 
so much more new stuff, but easier, in that there has been such good input 
from the core devs.

Don't worry about typos as I've already marked them.  But everything else 
is "fair game" for correction, addition, etc.  Even as late as Saturday 
night I was still finding "new" things that I hadn't known about.

I'm especially concerned to get the installation stuff bedded down.

thks
Helen