Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Firebird is alive and secure
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
“The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero. The active Firefox browser project, on the other hand,
has fixed 370 bugs, verified 56 and faces another 246 to verify and fix.”
Firebird 2.03 on HPUX 11
I have just released a classic version of Firebird V2.03 for HPUX 11. This is a 64bit version for PA-RISC 2.0. The current install mechanism as per Firebird 1.5.x uses a tar file and scripts to install firebird into /opt/firebird etc. I think the time has now come to try and write a depot file so that we can use the HPUX installer to install firebird.
Carlos is leaving project
From Carlos Guzmán Álvarez:
I have decided to leave the project, the reason is mainly that i have left to do development in my spare time and really i’m going to continue in that situation for a long time, really, right now the last thing i want when i reach home is get coding again
I want to give great thanks to all of you for your help and support in all the time i was active in the development of the .NET provider 🙂
how hard the Core Developers are working
i would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already …).
A little graph for you ….
or if you want to full 263 Character URL Read more
Firebird Maestro 7.12 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.12, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features SQL Generator tool, improved Data Grid and Database Designer, and some other useful things.
Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4718/
Firebird 2.03 Classic for MacOS – 10.5 Leopard Ready
If anybody is interested in testing the following:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/firebirdCS-2.0.3-13023-i386.pkg.zip
Right Click and Save as
Regards
Paul Beach
lazarus 0.9.24 released
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.24 release. This release is based on fpc 2.2.0.
This release can be downloaded from the
sourceforge download page.
how to use DDEX provider for Firebird in VS2008
I’ve decided to try to install into VS2008 the DDEX provider. It has been working like a charm. I’ve been doing steps like in any other installation
HOW TO Contribute to the Firebird Reference Documentation Sub-Project
The Firebird Reference Documentation Sub-Project has the goal to create a comprehensive Reference Documentation for the Firebird SQL Database.
PS: Anyone can pick a topic and write a piece of documentation for it. It’s small pieces on a per-keyword-basis, with no markups, just plain text with a very basic structure skeleton – so no skills in html, docbook or anything like that are required. The plan is to keep the “entry level” very low so everyone here can help. Final doc will look something like this.