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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-05 17:28:19 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-05 17:28:19 +0000
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+<html><head>
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+<link href="sqlite.css" rel="stylesheet">
+<title>Long Term Support</title>
+<!-- path= -->
+</head>
+<body>
+<div class=nosearch>
+<a href="index.html">
+<img class="logo" src="images/sqlite370_banner.gif" alt="SQLite" border="0">
+</a>
+<div><!-- IE hack to prevent disappearing logo --></div>
+<div class="tagline desktoponly">
+Small. Fast. Reliable.<br>Choose any three.
+</div>
+<div class="menu mainmenu">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="index.html">Home</a>
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+<li class='desktoponly'><a href="prosupport.html">Purchase</a>
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+</ul>
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+<li><a href='about.html'>About</a>
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+<li><a href='download.html'>Download</a>
+<li><a href='support.html'>Support</a>
+<li><a href='prosupport.html'>Purchase</a>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="searchmenu" id="searchmenu">
+<form method="GET" action="search">
+<select name="s" id="searchtype">
+<option value="d">Search Documentation</option>
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+<div class=fancy>
+<div class=nosearch>
+<div class="fancy_title">
+Long Term Support
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<p>
+The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through
+the year 2050.
+
+</p><p>
+At this writing, 2050 is still 34 years in the future.
+Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot
+absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that
+far out.
+But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be
+supporting SQLite until 2050.
+That long-term outlook affects our
+decisions in important ways.
+
+</p><ul>
+<li><p>
+<b>Cross-platform Code</b> &rarr;
+SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte,
+two's complement 32-bit and 64-bit integers,
+and a C compiler. It is actively
+tested on all currently popular CPUs and operating
+systems.
+The extreme portability of the SQLite code and file
+format will help it remain viable on future platforms.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b>Stable, Cross-platform Database Files</b> &rarr;
+SQLite <a href="fileformat2.html">database files</a> are bit-for-bit identical on
+32-bit, 64-bit, big-endian, and little-endian platforms. You
+can copy an SQLite database file from one system to another
+without having to translate or convert the database.
+Furthermore, the file format is well documented and stable.
+Database files created today will be readable and writable by
+future versions of SQLite decades in the future.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b><a href="testing.html">Aviation-grade testing</a></b> &rarr;
+Every machine-code branch instruction is tested in both
+directions. Multiple times. On multiple platforms and with
+multiple compilers. This helps make the code robust for
+future migrations. The intense testing also means that new
+developers can make experimental enhancements to SQLite and,
+assuming legacy tests all pass, be reasonably sure that the
+enhancement does not break legacy.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b>Extensive, detailed documentation</b> &rarr;
+SQLite has candid, developer-friendly,
+and open-source documentation. Docs are written by and
+for programmers.
+(A few examples:
+<a href="./arch.html">[1]</a>
+<a href="./fileformat.html">[2]</a>
+<a href="./queryplanner.html">[3]</a>
+<a href="./opcode.html">[4]</a>
+<a href="./compile.html">[5]</a>
+<a href="./malloc.html">[6]</a>
+<a href="./debugging.html">[7]</a>
+<a href="./howtocorrupt.html">[8]</a>)
+The extensive documentation helps new developers
+come up to speed on SQLite very quickly.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b>Heavily commented source code</b> &rarr;
+The SQLite source code is over 35% comment. Not boiler-plate
+comments, but useful comments that explain the meaning of variables
+and objects and the intent of methods and procedures.
+The code is designed
+to be accessible to new programmers and maintainable over a span
+of decades.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b>Disaster planning</b> &rarr;
+Every byte of source-code history for SQLite is cryptographically
+protected and is automatically replicated to multiple
+geographically separated servers, in datacenters
+owned by different companies.
+Thousands of additional clones exist on private servers around the
+world.
+The primary developers of SQLite live in different regions of the world.
+SQLite can survive a continental catastrophe.
+
+</p></li><li><p>
+<b>Old school</b> &rarr;
+Nobody is completely immune to trends and fads, but the SQLite
+developers work hard to avoid being sucked into the latest programming
+fashion. Our aim is to produce timeless code that will be
+readable, understandable, and maintainable by programmers
+who have not yet been born.
+</p></li></ul>
+
+<p>
+In addition to "supporting" SQLite through the year 2050, the developers
+also promise to keep the SQLite
+<a href="cintro.html">C-language API</a> and <a href="fileformat2.html">on-disk format</a>
+fully backwards compatible.
+This means that application written to use SQLite today should be able to
+link against and use future versions of SQLite released decades in the
+future.
+
+</p><p>
+Our goal is to make the content you store in SQLite today as
+easily accessible to your grandchildren as it is to you.
+
+</p><p>
+<b>Update on 2018-05-31:</b>
+Our goal of supporting SQLite long-term have apparently come to the
+notice of the preservationist at the
+<a href="https://www.loc.gov">US Library Of Congress</a> who have identified
+SQLite as a <a href="locrsf.html">recommended storage format</a> for the preservation of
+digital content.
+</p><p align="center"><small><i>This page last modified on <a href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/honeypot" id="mtimelink" data-href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/finfo/pages/lts.in?m=c7fb3381bbf0ac7c9">2020-12-01 19:58:42</a> UTC </small></i></p>
+