Firebird 4.00

Discussion of open issues, suggestions and bugs regarding IBDAC (InterBase Data Access Components) for Delphi, C++Builder, Lazarus (and FPC)
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abak
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Firebird 4.00

Post by abak » Mon 11 Apr 2016 21:08

Hello devart,
It's a snapshot release :
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/snapshot-builds/

Can we use it with IBDac 5.6.21 ?
Thx

ViktorV
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Re: Firebird 4.00

Post by ViktorV » Tue 12 Apr 2016 10:07

Currently, IBDAC has no support for Firebird 4. We will add support for Firebird 4 when it is officially released. You can download Firebird 4 snapshot build and check IBDAC compatibility with Firebird 4.

frickler
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Re: Firebird 4.00

Post by frickler » Wed 06 Mar 2019 08:22

Firebird 4.0 Beta 1 is released! See https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebir ... r-testing/

I did a quick test with IBDAC 6.3.11. Nothing fancy, just a IBCConnection and a IBCTable, opening table CUSTOMER of the EMPLOYEE demo database using firebird 4 embedded, and it worked. Of course, further testing is necessary, and new datatypes like DECFLOAT or new transaction modes are unlikely to be supported at this time.

ViktorV
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Re: Firebird 4.00

Post by ViktorV » Thu 07 Mar 2019 13:44

We support only the release versions of DBMS since beta versions may contain errors, and the release version may differ a lot from the beta version. Therefore, we will add support for Firebird 4 when it is officially released.

AlexanderL
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Re: Firebird 4.00

Post by AlexanderL » Mon 20 May 2019 17:13

I understand your potential downside is if features and interfaces change and you would have to redo the new code, but we, your clients, have to start developing new features utilizing new data types now. Some of the stuff might require months to code and UX tweaks. We also want to be ready with our new features when 4.0 is ready.
I'm sure reasonable people will not blame you for bugs in beta code. Can you at least implement new data types so we could start using them?

ViktorV
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Re: Firebird 4.00

Post by ViktorV » Tue 21 May 2019 05:42

You can write about supporting this functionality on our User Voice forum: https://devart.uservoice.com/forums/104 ... y_id=24461 to speed up the implementation of this functionality.

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