| Subject | RE: [Firebird-general] IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available |
|---|---|
| Author | IBO Support List |
| Post date | 2014-07-20T14:34:10Z |
This post makes me realize I have done very little to make
public the work I have done with IB Objects over the past
years.
For everyone's knowledge, IB Objects has been available on
Lazarus for years now and is very mature there. In fact, several bugs and/or
deficiencies in Lazarus have been fixed based on the massive amount of manhours
that have gone into porting IB Objects to Lazarus. IB Objects has a very large
and robust regression testing suite that we had to get Lazarus able to pass,
which we accomplished over a year ago. There is a huge commitment between the
Lazarus and IB Objects development teams. We have been closely working together
for years to make these products work together as optimally as
possible.
I suppose some may appreciate being able to more easily port
their IBX based applications to Lazarus. However, due to the very poor
implementation of transactions in the IBX architecture, among many other
deficiencies, I strongly discourage staying with IBX. It has no future
with Delphi due to FireDAC native drivers and it's only hope of continuation is
by people who are unfriendly towards Firebird. It's a great gesture of goodwill
to have ported IBX to Lazarus, but it is really only a gesture towards a
majority of people staying with InterBase and Delphi.
Also. anyone wishing to have access to IBO on Lazarus may
request access to the full sources without cost under the terms of the Trustware
License I use.
Note: There are still some visual controls in IBO that aren't
perfected for use in Lazarus. But, all non-visual components are 100%
functional.
Kind regards,
Jason Wharton
From: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:46 AM
To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Firebird-general] IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available
Tony announced new version, IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available from
http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx
See announcement in the 3rd party Lazarus forum for the change log.
Performance increased with 30-50% in some cases.