Re: [Firebird-devel] Providers, yvalve, external engines and object lifecycle

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 03/25/11 20:45, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 25.03.2011 18:30, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>> It's always easy to ask people they need to:
>>
>> 1) Wait for the creators of the library they use to release new version,
>> rewritten for a new API
>> or
>> 2) Convert they existing code with use official till now Firebird API to
>> use new API
>>
>> Right?
>    Right. Because a) no existing code exists yet; b) before such code appear, new API will 
> become years old.
>    You are too optimistic about external datasource feature. BLOB filter API exists from 
> the beginning. How many third-party BLOB filters you know? UDF API is even older. How many 
> years passed before libraries like rfunc stop crashing server?.. It was a joke: rfunc 
> still do that.

Guys, I suppose you are both somewhat right. I know that Adriano expects
that some people will convert there existing code to run in external
engines. It's possible, though I do not expect massive things. And
certainly if we make it possible to use old ISC API in external engines
(moreover, this does not seem to be a big problem), such conversion
looks easier.