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New version of FreeAdhocUDF – now with UTF-8 support

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Today we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20090925” of FreeAdhocUDF.
There are some bugfixes and 48 new functions (totally now more than 500).
This is a recommended update and the first (and only?) UDF-library with UTF-8 and UNICODE-FSS support.
For security reasons there is a new separate file-UDF-library FAUfile.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html
For better support there is a forum – direct URL http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/portal
For all kind of questions use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org

adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring

Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News

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Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News

“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.

Status of Vulcan project

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Bill Oliver from sas.com wrote on firebird-devel about the status of Vulcan project:

My company was original requestor/sponsor of Vulcan project. You are much
better off at this point in time looking into Firebird 2.5. Even at Beta
status, you will find Firebird 2.5 much more stable than Vulcan that is
present on Source Forge.

All of the key features from Vulcan have been front-ported to Firebird 2.5
beta. These include:

    * SMP support in Embedded mode, with per-database lock files. This is now
    called Embedded Super Classic
    * Ports to 64-bit Unix and Windows. Specifically, ports for Solaris (S64),
    Solarix AMD (SAX), HP-UX on PA RISC and Itanium, and 64-bit Linux support
    * SQL-2003 compliant SQL State implementation
    * Statement cancelling
    * Ability to “unprepare” a SQL Statement, vs. simply “closing” it.
    * Ability to create users through SQL, instead of through a client tool
    * Support for hexadecimal literal constants
    * The whole codebase is now thread-safe. Statement handles should be
    thread-safe
    * Numerous bug fixes

The build system works quite nicely on the Unix side, using the gnu
toolchain + autoconf. On Windows, the build system is very straight-forward.
There is added advantage that on windows there is daily snapshot build for
32-bit and 64-bit windows that you can use for testing.

I can’t say Vulcan is any easier for a newbie. It’s the same code base, just
reworked. There are many bug fixes to build system in Firebird 2.5,
especially in area of a “portable”, cross-unix build system.

We continue our own thread testing against Firebird 2.5 and all issues we’ve
reported have been fixed in upcoming Beta 2.

Alex just last week pushed last fixes, that now let Firebird 2.5 run on AIX,
HP-UNIX Itanium, HP-UNIX PA-RISC, Solaris Sparc, Solaris Intel and pass
basic regression. Very impressive.

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