On Thursday 2002-02-21 at 12:30:18 +1100, Helen Borrie wrote:

> >As for fixing it, who wants to be the first to
> >make Win & Mac use only LF? :-) Clue: it ain't gonna happen ;-) OTOH,
> >Max OS/X is FreeBSD based, so presumably Macs now use LF for end of
> >line... unless Apple hacked all the source to make it CR instead... a
> >perilous undertaking...
>
> Ummmm....though it sounds like a wonderful, one-world idea, it
> wasn't what I meant...I meant, someone would need to fix the UDF
> sometime (add support for the non-Win linebreak alternatives)....

Ahhhhh... :-) the mists have now receded...

With regard to UDF libraries, has anyone thought about whether it
would make sense to distribute a wider range of UDFs with the standard
Firebird distribution (or even a "premium" distribution)? I thought
that, as long as the UDFs are portable among the platforms upon which
Firebird runs, it would be very helpful if a couple of the most useful
UDF libraries (or just the most universally useful functions from
those libraries) were brought together for inclusion with Firebird.

I see that something like this would be necessary to make Firebird
compare more favourably with other RDBMSs that have copious numbers of
functions for every conceivable purpose (OK, I exaggerate).

I suppose this would either mean an expanded role for ib_udf or
fb_udf, and/or additional standard UDF libraries that are maintained,
tested and distributed for all platforms with Firebird (or Firebird
"Premium" perhaps).

Perhaps this can be carried over to IBDI since it has wandered off the
support agenda.


David Trudgett