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I'm not a subscriber, I read bugtraq via a mail2news
gateway, but you can forward this to the list if
you want:
"The V1.5 release of Firebird represents a major upgrade to the V1.0 database engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the original InterBase source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License on 25th July 2000.
Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early on during the Firebird V1.0 development process, with the porting of the Firebird 1.0 C code to C++ and the first major steps at code clean up. Firebird V1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase and represents a significant milestone for the developers and the whole Firebird project, but it is not an end in itself. As Firebird V1.5 goes to release, major development continues toward the next point release on the journey to Firebird V2.0.
There are many new features and bugs fixed and the list of major changes beyond the original V1.0 version is quite long. Please read the Release Notes for more information."
The C code that implemented many old Interbase bugs is
no longer used in V1.5 (although it is always wise to test
a new release to be sure, as replacement of the old C code
with the new C++ code may be incremental).
(This is merely fyi on the revamped Firebird code base,
and is not intended to express any opinion on the
average relative bugginess of C vs C++ code.)
Regards,
Clayton Weaver
"The test of our progress is not whether we add
more to the abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for those who have
too little." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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