Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:37:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interbase source available Message-ID: <20000801133754.A14444@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000801131642.B29412@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:16:42PM %2B0200 References: <20000726012622.BA7E737BC03@hub.freebsd.org> <20000726104938.J57100@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <20000801131642.B29412@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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On Tue 2000-08-01 (13:16), Johann Visagie wrote: > > 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. :-( I agree. I don't know _how_ this thing builds. It's a mess of broken makefiles, broken symlinks, broken shell scripts, and endless other stuff. It assumes things like "." being in your path, and your build directory to be in a certain place, and that certain place is impossible to guess, and the symlinks are all relative. Ick. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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