Let’s put it this way, there were obviously enough people affected that a whole bunch of people came together in the forum to ask about it. Christian wrote a blog post about a workaround and built his own plugin to mitigate this.
You yourself have rather used this workaround diligently in your database abstraction layer in order to be able to work with it. MariaDB / MySQL is not necessarily some underground database that only exists because someone forgot to delete it. A few people actually use it.
I’ve been using RealBasic for well over 20 years and there came a time when I gave up writing bug reports. Maybe - at least I have the slightest feeling - someone has been interested in fixing bugs again for a few months now. I won’t believe it until I really see it.
In my opinion, I wouldn’t pay much attention to what arrives in the issue tracker today or what is trending there. After all, Xojo has done everything in the last few years to give users the feeling that Xojo doesn’t give a ■■■■ about them. Professional users in particular have withdrawn massively.
You can see how everyone has actually given up when you see that a “workaround” is pulled out of the hat for every problem. It has simply become completely normal that workarounds are constantly being developed for things that don’t work. It’s tons of working hours because you know that a ticket would remain unfixed forever. And hey, software that I’m developing today that has to be ready in 1 week - 3 months can’t wait months or years for a fix.
A fix is also not a bonus for the user. I expect a development environment (for which I pay!) to simply do what it is supposed to do. It is not my job to look for or document bugs. This is a concession on my part!!! A software tester is provided with the software and receives money for his work. So I am clearly NOT a software tester.
Let’s see where this goes, but at the moment I keep seeing people who are pretty unhappy with the situation and even my best friend (a professional developer himself) thinks I’m pretty stupid to still be working with Xojo.