Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3, time to rename conflict names ?

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> On 17-11-2012 09:47, marius adrian popa wrote:
>> >Redirects and FAQs can be refreshed , Memory can be refreshed
>> >Documentation can be updated , we can't live in the ib 1.0 - 4.0 era forever
>> >symlinks can be created at install times for oldtimers
>> >
>> >Times changed from the Vax years and people request up to date
>> >documentation and majority use a gui usually
>> >flamerobin , ibexpert ... even the core devels

> Although all that is true, it is a risk you take and a cost the
> community will need to absorb.

On Linux at least, links can be provided so that no existing distributed 
installations are broken. I don't use the command line stuff often in other 
scripts, but I CAN see a situation where legacy systems could be using command 
line functions and the original developers are no longer around. But I certainly 
much prefer underline to dash as a separator, and defining a clean prefix that 
can be searched for where symlinks ARE still supporting the old style simply 
begs that the same prefix is maintained?

> (long gone are the days of 8.3 filenames)
They are still present in FAT based storage ...

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