Art,

During a Kylix presentation to the local Delphi user group last fall,
John Kaster of Borland said that Kylix *would* include an open-source
InterBase driver.

After reading the article, my sense is that the writer was accenting the
unexpected - hence the mention of MySQL and not InterBase.

WRT world+dog... not 100% sure, even after reading the article on the
web site -- I suspect they were talking about how they were going to
propose the new exception model which Kylix compiler uses to the "world"
for implementation in a subsequent release of Linux. It has
significantly lower overhead compared to the object code produced by gcc
(Gnu C Compiler).


Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Metz [mailto:ametz@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:55 PM
To: 'IBDI@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [IBDI] Kylix freebies

> a generous freebie package bundles not only the
> CLX and DataCLX libraries but a MySQL driver too.

Does anyone know if they plan to include an InterBase driver?

> it wants to propose the new exception
> handling model back to world+dog.

Any idea what this means?

Art Metz
AMetz@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: IBDI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBDI] Kylix freebies
>
>
> From the New York Kylix launch today:
>
>
>
> Pricing is similar to the Windows Delphi
> equivalent,
> at $1999 for the
> server/web developer edition and $999
> for desktop
> apps, but a generous
> freebie package bundles not only the CLX
> and DataCLX
> libraries but a
> MySQL driver too.
>
> ....the libraries are open source. But Charles
> Jazdzewski, the chief scientist at CTO
> of the RAD
> group at Borland,
> says that it wants to propose the new exception
> handling model back to
> world+dog. This, he says, was freshly
> written for
> Kylix, and doesn't
> involve any run-time overhead of
> exception frames. And
> he adds, should
> result in much smaller executables than gcc
> equivalents. Perhaps 12 per
> cent or less of a debugging executable
> is taken up by
> exception tables,
> rather than 50 per cent in a gcc debug
> executable. And
> it hopes Red Hat
> and Cygnus will chew the proposal over,
> with view to
> it becoming free
> software. (r)
>
> See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16520.html
>
> Cheers,
> Helen
>
> All for Open and Open for All
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