News from the Firebird developers.
The project is happy to share our development plans for the next year in the updated roadmap.
We’ll do our best following the schedule, but please keep in mind that the progress also depends on your field-testing feedback. We surely appreciate any assistance in this area, thank you in advance.
Dmitry Yemanov
Firebird Project
Hello *,
the firebird-net-provider subproject of Firebird project is proud to
announce release of version 1.7.2 of .NET Data Provider for .NET 1.1.
This release is only maintenance release. Contains only backported fix
for connecting to Firebird 2.1 server. No new features or other
bugfixes etc. were added.
You can download it from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
For all those who followed this thread, I will sum up what we have
found out:
Up until FB 2.0 it was possible to deliver a Firebird Client or a
Firebird Embedded Server by just copying the files like fbclient.dll
or fbembed.dll (and a few others) together with the MS VC Runtimes
(msv*.dll) into one folder.
Starting with MSVC8 (which is used by Firebird 2.1) and Windows XP,
just having the MSVC files in the same directory is not sufficient any
more. They have to be “installed correctly”. I don’t know what that
means exactly, but in effect it means they have to somehow be
magically teleported to the Windows\WinSxS directory where they get
funny names. Read more
FSQL command line utility for executing sql scripts Alternative to ISQL, with some enhancements added by Ivan Prenosil
http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase/fsql_1_6_15.zip
Also there is Graphical tool too
http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase/wfsql_1_6_15.zip
People probably noticed that second alpha (or maybe first beta) of FB 2.5 is a bit delayed. The reason is that the Trace API feature is being “investigated”, and probably will be included in the next release. This is a nice feature first developed by RedSoft, allowing to “log” everything that is taking place in the Firebird server.
Read more on Jiri’s post Name and path of .NET program accessing Firebird database.
Windows Binaries for python 2.4/2.5 are at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/python/
Also sources are there for linux/ubuntu users
You can test the new snapshot from here
Michael committed a few things during the last days, fixed bugs and
implemented one or two feature requests. Among them are
and I’d be glad if people found the time to check things out and post
bug reports for stuff that isn’t working. Current snapshot is rev. 1806
on SF.net.
Thanks
