On 25 Aug 2001, at 7:54, lester@... wrote:

> The other side of the coin is that trying to isolate the
> problem ones self give a very good insite on how things are
> working, and often isolates the problem. In a lot of cases,
> there is nothing for Jason to do, because the 'problem' was
> one of understanding rather than a fault in the code, and
> these problems can not be created without a working sample
> anyway! More often again these are in the underlying code,
> and a work around is just hiding a particular windows
> problem. If only Microsoft provided the sore of support
> Jason does - arn't there some 100000 outstanding windows
> bugs?

It's one of the things I found annoying about working with VB, half
the problems in VB, the VB team blamed on Windows. Why they never
asked the Windows team to fix those errors, is beyond me.

> Added to all this off cause is that we have 8 different
> development environments, 2 versions of tools, and various
> flavours of the database. I am just trying to cope with the
> three builder tools ( 3, 4 & 5 ), add 4 versions of Delphi,
> Kylix and the various sub levels of each of these (
> standard, profesional, enterprise ) and the problems
> multiply. And now there is a newer version of Firebird!
>
> The 'automatic' sample please is the only way that ongoing
> support can be provided, and the sample should also include
> version of IBO, development environment and version of
> Firebird/Interbase.

It should also include the Windows version, and the O/S that the
server is running on. It's better to include to much information
then too little.

>
> On that front does anybody have a strong view on droping
> Builder3 and Delphi3 from IBO4 so that we can actually start
> adding proper 64bit support amongst other things, and reduce
> the amount of time spent cross checking builds by 25%. As
> far as I am concerned, Builder 3 was never used for
> production projects, it was not stable enough, and we had to
> pay Borland for Builder4 which fixed SOME of the problems.
> The rest are still present in Builder5!

Hey I still use Delphi 3, I hope to eventually upgrade the D6, but
that will not be until I get a project that I am just starting in the
can.

Paul


Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
Email: paul@...
Website: www.tricattechnologies.com