[fpc-devel] DB Bug in 2.0.1?

[Micha Nelissen]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:25:05 +0300
Alexandrov Alexandru <alexandru.alexandrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/21/05, Micha Nelissen <micha at neli.hopto.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:51:12 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Because of the bug report I did some research on this as well.
> > > Up to and including D4, a TDateTimeRec was used internally.
> > > As of Delphi 5, TDateTime was used.
> > >
> > > Since the first FPC TDataset implementation was based on a D3 spec,
> > > this explains the confusion.
> > 
> > Yes, but FPC already used TDateTime internally, according to TDbf :-)
>
> It is not about SUPPORT_NEW_FIELDDATA, but 
> SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA.
> 
> In fcp package, in dbf_common.inc it is defined
> SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA but in
> last package on sourceforge not.

I see, the backward compatible translation thingy. Why didn't you report this to me ?

'Official' TDbf has never had the SUPPORT_BACKWARD_FIELDDATA defined for FPC.

Micha