Pierre Joye wrote:

> hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:
>
>> Probably. Certainly it would be nice to be able to ditch Windows completely
>> :)
>
> You have the exact same problem and issues on Linux. The only
> differences is that the vendors (redhat, suse, ubuntu, etc.) take care
> of the libs mess and incompatibilities for you. But as soon as you
> need specific versions or rely on specific features, you can get into
> troubles as well.

Mandriva has good Firebird support and I can build anything I want anyway.
It's just the pigging local council IT departments that insist on Windows AND
are still stuck with W98 on lots of machines :(

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