> A) Unicode Version
> I have written mostly the same to Jason about a year ago.
> I was no big deal to make a first unicode version, about 2
> days (only for d2009/d2010).
> (This version is based on 4.8.7 on more than a year old).
> Jason has this version of mine.
> But he decided to go in another direction.

Hmmm... definitely took me longer than 2 days and only for the
core package at this stage - and I am still not convinced that
I am finished.

Yes I based mine on 4.8.7 too - using that allows you to use
the existing Delphi features (warnings and hints etc) to aid
the conversion process. To convert 4.9 would mean much more
work... although I did use the 4.9 IB_Header file as that
already had the API definitions fixed up.

> B) Test Suite
> You can found a first Test Suite for IBO on Sourceforge.
> Wenn I found some bugs I first write a test for it, then
> fix it. But the Test Suite contains only a few cases.
> If somebody have written testcode he/she is invited to
> join the project.

Yes this is not so much a "suite" as it is the start of a test
framework. To actually write the needed tests is a much larger
job... and it is actual tests I need to validate the changes.
I was hoping Jason had something that he used to validate IBO
code prior to release.


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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing