On 18 Jan 2002, at 9:19, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 09:46 AM 17-01-02 -0800, you wrote:
> >> >It has been working happily for 6
> >> >months with whatever on win98. But I am being super cautious in
> >> >changing to XP and XP compatability test says 'no'
> >> > to my ibGuardian.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I don't know what that indicates. So far, all I've heard of
> >> XP is the problem of severe performance degradation due to the
> >> SystemRestore thing.
> >>
> >
> >I was emailed by a customer yesterday who said the same thing. They
> >ran the XP compatability test, and it said the Interbase was not
> >compatable. It does work though. I just had to tell him that I
> >didn't know why it said that and assured him that it does work.
> >
> >Another ploy by MS to kill IB/FB?
>
> Facetious comment (?)...(I don't have XP)...maybe the REAL purpose of
> filelist.xml is as a hit-list of all known file-types for software
> built with open source...it's read by the compatibility test and, if
> the user ignores the result of that, they bring in a second line of
> defence, which is to back up the file every time there is a file i/o.
>

It's much more likely that the compatability test depends on
someone at MS doing some paid testing by the software vendor.
Borland probably doesn't care, and FB doesn't have the funds to
pay for the compatability testing. As for the file extensions, well
that's more likely an accident then anything else, and it should be
easily fixable, we simply need to add an option in the ibconfig file
to allow one to specify the name of the isc4.gdb file (heck this
could be possible in RC3 ). If the option is not there, it uses
isc4.gdb.

We could then adopt a new extension convention, maybe fbdb for
Firebird and ibdb for Interbase. This should be okay, since MS
hasn't figured out that extensions can now be many characters in
length.


Paul








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