[Firebird-net-provider] Developement status report

[Carlos G. A. <car...@te...>]

Hello:

After some time thinking on it i have decided to rewrite the GDS 
implementation, i decide this after see the result of the implementation 
of the protocol of a Data Provider for other RDBMS i have been developed 
since past month, i think that with the rewrite the GDS will more clear 
an easy of mantain and i expect faster too.

The new GDS implementation will be included in 1.5 version ( i'm 
starting to work in it yet ), i'm planning to add for this version 
classes for metadata extraction, that will be accessed from a 
GetDbSchema method of FbConnection ( like for OleDb provider ) and some 
design time support for VS.NET ( non decided yet but i think this will 
be interesting ), but main objective is to rewrite the GDS implementation.

This rewrite will affect only to internal classes, ADO.NET classes will 
expose the same members as in version 1.1.

With this in mind the next version of the 1.1 branch will be Beta 1 and 
developement will be feature freeze and only bug fixes will accepted for 
this, probably there will be one more beta version and at least 3 
release candidates.


Comments are welcome !! :D



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Best regards

Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Vigo-Spain