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#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released

October 17, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Cosmin Apreutesei wrote to to Lua, firebird-tools, LuaRocks mailing lists :

Firebird’s Lua binding v0.5.0 is out!

Quick changelog:

improved automated testing suite:
now testing against all 2.0-2.5 firebird and fbembed releases to date on win32 and linux32 (linux64 coming with the next version of alien)
server binary bundles including start/stop scripts are now available for download making it trivial to setup a testing environment
improved st:run()/st:fetch() handling based on statement type
added support for SQL_NULL type (fb 2.5+)
added at:sqlcode(), at:sqlstate(), at:sqlerrors(), at:errors(),at:full_status()
added at:start_transaction()
added st:row()
bug fixing, refactoring and documentation updates

Rockspeck and zip package here: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/source/browse/

The next version will include a reflection module for metadata export
and schema comparison and synchronization between two databases.

Feedback welcome!
Enjoy!

PS: Could someone please update the rockspec in the LR repo, thanks!

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#Python 2.7 version of the driver for #Windows #x86-32 and #x64 is released

October 16, 2010 mariuz One comment

here are the download links :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win-amd64-py2.7.msi/download

Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.

Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1

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Development of the official FB ODBC driver

October 15, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

From Firebird Foundation blog:

We’re pleased to announce that Alexander Potapchenko has officially accepted the Foundation’s proposal to resume development of the ODBC driver. Work has begun on the completion of the previously stalled V2.0 “RC2” release.

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Webinar: Firebird Performance Testing

October 15, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

A new webinar with Dmitry Yemanov and Alexey Kovyazin will discuss “Firebird Performance Testing”. Join them at October 19 2010 at 13.00 GMT, using the following link: http://bit.ly/9KkqMj

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Firebird supports all the #Debian #Linux main Architectures

October 15, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

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:

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)

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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

October 15, 2010 mariuz 2 comments

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

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Free DB special Blaise Pascal magazine

October 14, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Blaise Pascal is offering its new edition dedicated to DB development as free download. Firebird is mentioned in several of the articles. Download your copy right now.

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Firebird Foundation recent news

October 14, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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.

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