Subject RE: [ib-support] Re: OT: Supercharged Firebird group?
Author Dmitry Yemanov
Pavel and Alex,

> and on different forums. It was said that many modules are re-written
> and most of them on ASM (my personal opinion - blind alley), another
> algorithmic solutions are used for the same functionality.

Sorry, I don't think any module is completely rewritten. Especially in
assembly.

> Me too. But they started forking not yesterday, for themselves they
> made own forked builds in 2000 and perhaps "many modules"
> means really "many".

Probably.

> I hope it is not malicious intent, just neglecting because of lack
> of time. They are time to time reminded of it and after some
> grumbling
> spend time to get the sources square and make available part which
> they treat they must. Don't forget, they are only two guys working on
> Yaffil in their free time.

So do we.

> You are not right here, Pavel. They implemented this functionality
> earlier than FB, using pause while FB moved to C++. I don't want to

Some of this functionality, actually.

> say FB get ideas from Yaffil, as you know, there was large wishlist
> from Russian community accurately selected, hot discussed and voted
> before sending it to Sean and included into FB tracker more than a
> year ago and most of this features were in this list. You and

You're right. But we both know that some (don't know how many without
knowledge of their sources) changes have been got from the FB2 tree and they
have confirmed this fact.

> stay on pragmatic position - Yaffil exists for good or bad and we
> should find way for co-existance if could'nt find it for co-operation.

Yes, that's the current reality.


Dmitry