Well,

The truth is that there are a lot of rude answers passing here, like "Hire a programmer", just to name one. Or all kind of short and unpleasant remarks. I think that is not nice for anybody. One cannot assume that all others has the same level of experience or knowledge...

Just my 10 cents,
N.

----- Original Message -----
From: Valeri Mytinski
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: How to mix ascending and descending fields in one index


Can I tell my very personal opinion about this list, FB, and "what to do"?

I use FB about a year. Before (in fifteen years) I used Informix, MySQL,
Sybase, Postrgresql, MsSql. FB is worst. I spend much time on finding tricks
and workarounds. Some things just don't work as they must do (for example,
constraints).

Why I rarely ask my questions to this list? One cause is I don't like
answers like:

> Everybody with even a vague recollection of a computer science
> course knows...

or

> If people are really serious about arguing a case for a
> feature enhancement or a re-implementation, they should
> do it in firebird-architect or firebird-devel...

As almost all unconditional statements in world these are not truth
and first is also rude
(for me).
And I don't like to read 10 those in hope that 11's will be answer to
my question.
And it's most annoying to see such answers from developers or managers
or experts.

I think that weakest point of FB now is lack of good documentation.
I would like to see something like PostgreSQL manual. Documentation
must be full for
every release. I want to find ALL of FB's syntax, options, udf etc. in
the documentation
that comes with release. I don't like answers in this list like "see
Release notes for version xxx".

Documentation must be actual - all must work like documentation states
and vise versa.

I think that such documentation is even more important than new major releases.

I would prefer good documentation and new features in last stable
release than new release.
New release is additional work to my project: may be some code must be
rewritten,
all must be retested, and all customer's installations must be upgraded.

Regards

Valeri




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