[fpc-pascal] SDFDataset users!?

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> There are some bugs open for sdfdataset, e.g.
> 22894 Sdfdataset: empty file with FirstLineAsSchema reports Recordcount
> 1 instead of 0
> 22882 SDFDataset .AllowMultiLine does not support multiline import
>
> I've written a test suite to check sdfdataset behaviour. An older
> version of this is already in FPC trunk in the database tests
> (tcsdfdata.pp).
> The test set can be donwnloaded here:
> https://bitbucket.org/reiniero/fpc_laz_patch_playground/downloads
>
> Currently, taazz on the forum is improving sdfdataset against this test set:
> http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,18224.0.html
>
> If there are any sdfdataset users out there:
> 1. I'd very much appreciate additional test cases for tcsdfdata.pp.
> Especially if you think there are issues with current sdfdataset, please
> don't hesitate to send an tcsdfdata.pp with more tests.
>
> 2. Presumably sdfdataset is used to exchange data with Delphi systems
> using tstrings.delimitedtext. Therefore I'm stressing Delphi
> compatibility in my tests. Do you think this is justified?

No, definitely not. The two are totally unrelated.

Michael.