David Garamond wrote:

>Today I spent half an hour browsing through PostgreSQL ("PG") webpages
>
>In short, PG has been catching up in areas where FB used to be my only
>alternative.
>
>... I wonder what generally makes us not progressing
>as fast as PG (or dare I say IB7.x), because frankly judging from the
>mailing lists traffic alone FB can be considered very, very active :-)
>Is it mainly because the long and painful migration to C++? Is IB7.x
>codebase still in C?
>

Yes, to the best of my knowledge, InterBase 7.x is still C, but C vs C++
is not the
problem - in my opinion. One factor is our maturing as a project,
specifically in the
area of releases. It's very hard to release code with known bugs, but
unless you do,
you'll never release anything. On the other hand, as a relatively new
open source
project, we can't afford a buggy release. That's one reason for the
delay of 1.5. It
has a lot of new features, but was limited in what it could do by a
decision not to
change the ODS until we had a functional and released C++ version. I
believe you'll
see great progress in V2 and that the cycle time will be a great deal
shorter than the
V1.0 to V1.5 time.

Regards,


Ann