From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 1 4:16:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBE337BEE5; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 04:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #4) id 13Ja2M-000OtN-00; Tue, 01 Aug 2000 13:16:42 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:16:42 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jeffrey Hsu Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interbase source available Message-ID: <20000801131642.B29412@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20000726012622.BA7E737BC03@hub.freebsd.org> <20000726104938.J57100@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000726104938.J57100@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:49:38AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wrote on 2000-07-26 (Wed) at 10:49:38 +0200: > > Jeffrey Hsu on 2000-07-25 (Tue) at 18:26:22 -0700: > > > > In case anyone wants to make a port out of it, Borland has just > > released the source to their SQL database at > > http://www.borland.com/interbase > > Yes, this is an important one. I have developed on Interbase 5.1 before, and > it is a solid commercial database which provides many of the integrity etc. > features still lacking form the current crop of open source databases. > (Though Postgres will get there in the end, I believe.) I just had a better look at the source. Goooood grief. This one clearly bears the hallmark of a closed source product that had been developed in-house for decades by a group of developers who only coped because they knew the code well. Time will tell as to whether open source developers feel this one is worth cleaning up and building on. Whatever, it doesn't currently look like it'll be any sort of straightforward port. :-( -- V To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message