Firebird 2.0 moving to C++

Jasbir D wrote:
> Checkout Firebird as well - which appears to be the other alternative.
> 
>     http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php
> 
> q: How does open source affect the costs for companies which use
> Interbase or Firebird as an embedded server?
> 
> a: Firebird server and client are free of all licensing fees,
> regardless of whether you download a binary or build it yourself from
> the source code.

I found it interesting that Firebird is moving to C++ for their base
code in 2.0.  They have already started porting since releasing 1.0
recently:What Happens after Firebird 1.0?Well, work certainly won't stop. At the moment we have a Firebird 2.0tree
withinCVS. These tree has ported the original code to C++ andadded much improved exception handling and memory
management.

There are clearly some C++ constructs that would be nice to use in the
backend code, but the extra baggage and inability to limit people to
just a subset of the C++ features make such a move very questionable.

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