Month: October 2010

Firebird supports all the #Debian #Linux main Architectures

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With latest patches for hppa and alpha in Firebird 2.5 and Firebird 3.0 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures

All the cpus are supported now if in the next round of
buildd logs hppa and alpha cpu will be ok (green) minus the HURD thing 🙂

https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.5
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firebird2.5&suite=experimental

You can consult the list of supported architectures from last year and you can see the progress

Already ported:

    i386
    amd64
    mipsel
    sparc
    powerpc
    kfreebsd-i386
    kfreebsd-amd64
    arm
    ia64
    mips
    s390 = IBM/S390
    superH (sh4)
    alpha
    hppa

Minor ports that are not supported by Debian Main but we will try to do it anyway :

m68k
hurd
avr

ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo, meego or chrooted debian on android) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)

#Delphi , #Lazarus : UIB 2.5 is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5

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There was no major release since a long time,but the project has always been maintained for 7 years now.
In honor of the new version of Firebird, I decided to release this new version of UIB in 2.5.
There have been many changes to support Unicode for Delphi 2009 to XE.
UIB is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5.

http://www.progdigy.com/?p=149

ps: if you don’t know what UIB is ,  here is the description (archive.org link)
http://www.progdigy.com/?page_id=5

current page for UIB is https://github.com/hgourvest/uib

 

Firebird Foundation recent news

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News from the Firebird Foundation:

Wed 13 Oct 2010 09:00:00 GMT New Platinum Sponsor Secretary
Development-X Ltd, of Auckland, New Zealand is a new Platinum sponsor. Thank you, Liz and Jeff Keith. Jeff tells me he is looking forward to meeting up with any Foundation members present at the IBExpert conference next month in Bremen, Germany.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT Martens & Prahl Gold Sponsorship Secretary
Martens & Prahl has resumed its Gold sponsorship. Thank you, Thomas Beckmann, for facilitating this.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT Revival of ODBC Driver Sponsorship Secretary
DRB Systems Inc. CEO Steve Summers (also our Vice-President and a Gold sponsor already) has offered a goodly sum of $$$ to encourage a “kick-start” to resume development of the ODBC driver, to complete the v.2.0 release and get the v.2.1 driver well under way. Offer is made in combination with the reassignment of the FF grant allocation for this development, which has been lying fallow for a few years. A proposal has been made to a very capable developer and we await his acceptance.
Mon 4 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT Firebird 2.5 Release Everyone
We congratulate the Project team for releasing a great new version of Firebird today, v.2.5. We note that the Mind the Bird people are busy organising press releases and webinars to mark the day.

Firebird 2.5: The Real and The Only alternative to #MySQL

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The Firebird 2.5 article is in Italian language
And here is the translation (with highlights from Firebird 2.5 press release)

l progetto Firebird ha da poco annunciato il rilascio della versione 2.5 del suo database relazionale opensource.

Le novità di questa release sono abbastanza interessanti ma ovviamente gli sforzi maggiori sono stati fatti per migliorare l’affidabilità, le performance e la scalabilità del database. Philippe Makowski, presidente della fondazione non-profit Firebird Foundation ha dichiarato che il rilascio di Firebird 2.5 è un passo importante sia per il progetto stesso, visto che cade in questi giorni il suo decimo anni di vita, che per l’intero mondo opensource.

D’altronde, come dargli torto: la comunità sta cercando ormai da un bel po’ di tempo un degno sostituto di MySQL che, nonostante i proclami di Oracle, pare sempre più lontano dall’iniziale predisposizione all’opensource. “Molti nostri clienti utilizzano senza grossi problemi database Firebird che spaziano dai 200 ai 400GB”, ha dichiarato Stewart Sping, CTO della Watermark Software. “I miglioramenti delle performance di Firebird 2.5 permetteranno sicuramente di raggiungere risultati ancora più entusiasmanti”. Firebird 2.5 è disponibile sotto forma di pacchetti binari per piattaforme Windows e Linux a 32 e 64 bit. Maggiori informazioni e download sono disponibili su questa pagina

firebird #ruby driver is building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2

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Brent Rowland wrote on twitter

Got fb building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.9.1. Now for 1.9.2.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27211068760

Got fb building with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. At least on Mac. Under 10.6. Testing Linux and Windows will have to wait for another day.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27220817754

Here is the git repository for Firebird Ruby driver , also you can check the
commits log

ps: he is working on Firebird 2.5 support if you wonder what is new in the driver 🙂

RAD Studio XE in Devart VCL

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From Irina Pisklyarova:

Devart announced the new versions of VCL Data Access Components with full support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE.

The Devart VCL Data Access Components product line consists of the solutions that provide access from Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder, and Free Pascal chest, and offer wide coverage of the database servers’ feature sets. Devart Data Access Components provide the direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil, SQLite, DB2, Microsoft Access, Advantage Database Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and other databases.

Starting SC/CS on Linux

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Alex Peshkov posted some more (interesting) info about this in fb-devel list:

The only difference between [starting] classic and superclassic is different server binary to start – classic is started by fb_inet_server (started by xinetd) and super – fb_smp_server, started by fbguard, started by /etc/init.d script. You can remove fb_smp_server, fbguard and startup scripts – and you will get poor classic package. To get superclassic package – remove fb_inet_server and xinetd startup file, and slightlychange install script.

Must say that this is anyway not a longterm solution. Since 3.0 we will not have separate packages – single package will serve all needs, including SS, and choice of operation mode will be done using firebird.conf.

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