Re: [Firebird-devel] Preparing for Firebird 2.0

[Alex P. <pe...@in...>]

sugi wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> My apologies if i'm posting this to the wrong list.
> 
> At the moment I'm using a Delphi data access component package called
> MDO (Mercury Data Objects, at sourceforge). The package seems to be
> stable so far, and it's Free, but development seemed to have slowed down
> significantly recently.
> 
>  From the point of view of 'data access component' writer, how hard
> (i.e. how different is the API) is it take to port something that
> currently supports interbase 6.x++ and firebird 1.x++ to firebird 2 ?
> 

API was not changed at all. There were some bugfixes, I remember 2 of them:
1. Fixed parameters ordering to be more intuitive (1.5).
2. Deprecated BOF-possible function isc_interprete(), added replacement 
fb_interpret() (2.0).

To summarize - I need not change any byte of my own data access 
component when moving ib6, fb1.0, fb1.5. In 2.0 I plan to use 
fb_interpret(), though everything will still work w/o it.

Alex.