Ah, darn, I'm a few hours late so you will probably miss it but I wanted to ask for a long time:
Sounds like a lot of stuff like this has accumulated. Your dedication to backwards compatibility (and testing) is always very impressive, but don't you ever get the urge to do a parallel "SQLite Next" effort as it were? Kind of like python had the 2/3 years.
I read somewhere that the developers of SQLite have a multi-decade support agreement with some big companies. If true, they will probably keep all the accumulated stuff. Any changes would only be additions and never break backwards compatibility.
> All development work on SQLite4 has ended. The experiment has concluded.
> Lessons learned from SQLite4 have been folded into SQLite3 which continues to be actively maintained and developed. This repository exists as an historical record. There are no plans at this time to resume development of SQLite4.
Sounds like a lot of stuff like this has accumulated. Your dedication to backwards compatibility (and testing) is always very impressive, but don't you ever get the urge to do a parallel "SQLite Next" effort as it were? Kind of like python had the 2/3 years.