Re: [Firebird-devel] Does firebird inherit the new code changes from borland?

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Martin Lohse wrote:
> 
> I'm still confused about this. Is FireBird constantly being based on the
> nightly builds that Borland is working on? Or is FireBird based on the
> Interbase 6.0 beta code?

It's based on the beta code and has been enhanced since then.
As for the nightly builds, there is no need to watch them as there
is usually less than one commit per month at the Borland tree.

Last changes were:

> 
> 2001-04-26 00:23  smistry
>  
>         * InterBase/jrd/: event.c, jrd.c:
>  
>         Fixing 2 bugs found by the open source community.
>  
>         Adding the missing ()s in both these cases, one in each file.
>  
>         Shaunak Mistry
>  
> 2001-03-19 23:33  stsikin
>  
>         * InterBase/: builds/original/prefix.linux,
>         builds/original/prefix.solaris,
>         builds/original/dbs/restore_build_dbs,
>         builds_win32/original/build_lib.bat,
>         builds_win32/original/ib_util.bind, dsql/pass1.c,
>         example5/prefix.linux, example5/prefix.solaris,
>         example5/sfx.unix_makefile, jrd/build_no.h, jrd/evl.c,
>         jrd/license.h, jrd/sdw.c, jrd/utl.c, remote/inet.c,
>         remote/property.c, remote/property.rc:
>  
>         Bulk update:
>  
>         - example databases are now owned by sysdba - rdb$dbkey in the
>         select list of a query with GROUP BY was dereferencing   a null
>         pointer - a NULL state in a GROUP BY item would crash the server -
>         initialize shadow_file to NULL_PTR _before_ calling SETJMP - don't
>         let the server use environment variables ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD
>         - if the server dies, ibguard was not able to restart the server -
>         changing build number and license strings - some cosmetic changes      



> 
> If the latter is true, how does new bug fixes from Borland get into
> FireBird?

As soon as there are chnges in the Borland tree they are examined and
usually integrated.

Frank

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