Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird Linux with --with-builtin-tommath

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 15-09-2022 13:13, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> On 15/09/2022 07:52, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> On 15-09-2022 03:52, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2022 08:13, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>>>> That is not really embedded IMHO. Firebird Embedded with Firebird 3.0
>>>> has become unwieldy and even harder to use than earlier versions,
>>>> especially if you compare it to other embedded database systems.
>>>
>>> How it become harder?
>>
>> Basically, in Firebird 2.5 and earlier, you needed fbembed.dll /
>> libfbembed.so and the intl folder, and you were done. Now you need a
>> whole constellation of files.
>>
> 
> Despite the problem with system libraries, which in many cases we could
> use static versions (I believe we cannot only with ICU), dealing with
> dozen of files has the same complexity of dealing with 2.

In some ways yes, in others not.

>> Other embedded database are basically on DLL/.so and you're done.
>>
> 
> Other that are *embedded only* or that can also be used (and focus on
> it) as a server like Firebird?

Embedded only.

Mark
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