Re: [Firebird-devel] Connecting to Firebird on different ports: something is wrong.

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 08:53, Nando Dessena wrote:

>
> Still I would like the client to abandon firebird.conf in a future
> release.
>

So would I - but for different reasons. A client install of Firebird 
presents users with a bewildering array of options in the .conf file, and 
almost none of them are relevant to the client. It all needs to be broken 
out into separate files according to install type and platform type. 

The supplied .conf file should represent the type of installation as far as 
possible. We shouldn't be putting Unix entries into the Win32 install and 
vice-versa. Likewise, the commented example entries ought to reflect the 
installation type. Too often we see examples that, say, are for Windows 
Superserver, while the user has just installed Classic on Linux.

None of this is difficult to fix, but it is going to have to wait til after 
1.5.


Paul
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