Martijn Tonies wrote:

>
>> Can you tell us aproximately when IBO will be ready for Dephi 2009 ?
>>
>> We have an application developed in Delphi7 / IBO 4.5
>> We are going to lift this project to newer versions soon.
>> Part of the application is using paradox.
>> We are going to have a new employee - whose job will be to port the
>> paradox-part to IBO.
>> It is difficult for us to decide if we should let our new employee work in
>> the (old !) Delphi7 - and wait for IBO for Delphi 2009 - or we should
>> upgrade to Delphi 2007 and newest IBO now.
>> If we know when we can expect IBO for Delphi 2009 this decision may be
>> easier.
>>
>
> As far as I can see, Jason is doing multiple things at once:
>
> - full Firebird 2.1/2.5 support, this requires quite some changes to IBO
> with regard to parsing and aliassing
>

This is almost impossible to do in the next release. Just think about
CTE, EXECUTE STATEMENT, EXECUTE BLOCK... especially if we think that in
2.5 we can query other databases from within the current database (in
which we are logged in).

...and especially when we think that he's trying to do it *alone*...