Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] odbc driver question

[Nikolay S. <nik...@re...>]

Heine,

Jorge was not exactly precise. :-)

There is no specific long-term ODBC development budget at Red Soft.

1) So on one side, ODBC driver development is currently driven by client 
requests. This is when I can become heavily involved.
About half of ODBC bug fixes in builds since 145 are done because 
BroadView Software asked them done.

So in my Open Source life right now I spend more time with the project 
which adds OLAP extensions and GUI to Firebird databases:
http://olap-navigator.sourceforge.net/

2) On the other side, although Alexander Potapchenko is heavily occupied 
with his primary responsibilities he has _volunteered_ to maintain 
public ODBC tree in shape and other guys at Murom lab (Roman Simakov, 
Dmitry Starodubov, and others) are kind to help him out.

I believe the situation is quite similar for IBPhoenix too.

So the situation with larger extensions (e.g. keyset cursors) remains 
the same. Either somebody contributes it when it is done, or it comes in 
a form of client's request.

Jorge Andrés Brugger wrote:
> See response to your mail from Nikolay Samofatov from 05/Sep/2008. He is 
> the guy :)
>
> Heine Ferreira escribió:
>   
>> I saw on the Firebird web site that there's a new person responsible 
>> for the odbc driver development.
>> Do you have any plans for implementing dynamic and keyset cursors?
>> If so what sort of timeframe are we talking about?
>>     

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