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Is Interbase 5 really needed to be supported? TZInterbase6DatabaseMetadata.UncachedGetProcedureColumns contains complex and very inefficient code only because IB5 lacks one metadata field. But the driver for IB mentions it only supports v6. Maybe it's time to drop support of ancient stuff?

Hello Fr0sT,

I agree, we don't need support for Internase 5. I suggest to drop it with Zeos 7.3.
With best regards,

Jan

Done

marsupilami wrote:Hello Fr0sT,

I agree, we don't need support for Internase 5. I suggest to drop it with Zeos 7.3.
With best regards,

Jan

Speaking of the Zeos 7.3, I wonder when 7.2 will become a release and get rid of beta test status?

ertank wrote:Speaking of the Zeos 7.3, I wonder when 7.2 will become a release and get rid of beta test status?

Honestly I think one can declare any of the latest 7.2 commits "a release". In fact, the beta or release status of 7.2 won't change things much. It gets only fixes anyway, no new features or breaking changes.

Fr0sT wrote:Honestly I think one can declare any of the latest 7.2 commits "a release". In fact, the beta or release status of 7.2 won't change things much. It gets only fixes anyway, no new features or breaking changes.

I like the way Lazarus does it. Make a release tag. After a while make a fixes branch for that release. Other development continue in trunk. However, I have no idea how complicated things can be if this is to be applied in ZeosLib.

This question is better to discuss with project commanders like Jan and Michael (and in separate thread I guess). I personally don't bother the branch status, I just use the latest 7.3 (mostly because it has the features I need)

Hello Fr0sT, Ertan,

me - a project commander? Hmmm - I hope to find a consensus between all active members who develop for Zeos ;o) Honestly the people who did releases in the past thought that there was more to it than just zipping up a copy of the current 7.2 branch. There are some scripts to run for getting a doxygen documentation and so on. I would like to see where that documentation leads us and if there really is some benefit in doing things that way. But I still don't have the time for that currently.

With best regards,

Jan