Olivier Mascia wrote:

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> Which reason / motivation explains we still need / want to live with two source code trees ?
> The one presumably operated by Borland and the other one by everybody else ?
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> I know and will never forget all the bad days we went through since nov/dec 1999.
> Though, more than I care in Borland, more than I care in IBPhoenix, I care in the product and the benefits it brings to my software developments, be the product called InterBase, FireBird or anything else.
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> What (really) good, if any, will we gain in the long run to continue on this path ?
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> Please, do not mis-understand my talk.
> I am just asking what you all think of this for now, for tomorrow and for the long term.
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In actual fact there is only one open source tree and it is maintained by
Firebird. AFAIK the Borland one is entirely private. They kept their word and
made the code open source in July. Since then I do not believe any serious
additions have been made public to the Borland tree by Borland employees.
(Please, if I am wrong, someone correct me.) And certainly nobody in the
community has contributed. (Again, correct me if I am wrong.) In any case, the
Borland tree is just not buildable outside of Scott's Valley, unless you have a
lot of spare time.

All in all I do not believe you have much to worry about. Borland intended to
slowly kill the product, had the chance to do the decent thing and now are
slowly killing the product. Their version will have a few dying gasps. But in
two years time it will be non-existent.

> I wish you a wonderfull new year, new century and new millenium !

Et bonne année, bonne siècle et bonne millenaire á vous aussi!


Paul
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Paul Reeves
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taking InterBase further