Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo
I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then
emerge flamerobin on Gentoo Read more
Recent porting efforts
Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.
via Firebird Developer’s Journal
Preparing for v2.0 Final Release
The CVS tree has been tagged for the final v2.0 release. The builds will be available for download as soon as they pass the QA procedures. [From: Dmitry Yemanov/Firebird Developer’s Journal]
Lazarus and FPC will be on the Systems 2006
Lazarus and FPC developers will be on the Systems 2006 in Munich in October in hall A3 booth 542. They will try to be there on all 5 days. You can find more information about the Systems 2006 here.
[Ed:you can meet the team and talk about the lazarus ide, oopascal , firebird , open source , free beer ;)]
Patch for the Linux/PPC port – ready
Damyan Ivanov restarted the linux powerpc port
You can watch the powerpc porting thread on sf.net devel mailing list
UPDATE:firebird started on powerpc (make passed create_db stage so first database was correctly created on that platform) Read more
Firebird php manual online
Another part of the Firebird on-line manual has gone live:
http://www.janus-software.com/fbmanual/
Read more
SuperServer future – think about it
From Jim Starkey:
I said in a post this morning that I thought a single code base for
superserver and classic was a mistake. I thought it might be useful to
elaborate.
Read more
1st Russian Firebird Conference
Dear Friends,
IBase, Inc is glad to announce The 1st Russian Firebird Conference. It will take place in Moscow, Russia, October 14, 2006.
Firebird Core developers, vendors of many related products and well-known enthusiasts will be there to present the most recent news and plans regarding Firebird 2, new versions of developers products and so on.
Check-in to conference (in Russian):
http://www.ibase.ru/conf2006_reg.htm
If you have any questions regarding participation or sponsorship please feel free to email conf@ibase.ru.
With best regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBase.ru
IBSurgeon.com