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#Ruby news : Firebird driver compilable on #rbx (rubinius) and full test passes on Linux (for the classic Ruby VM)

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Here is the description of rubinius:

Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.
The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++, incorporating LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime. The bytecode compiler and vast majority of the core classes are written in pure Ruby.

Here are the rbx experiments done by Brent Rowland

fb now builds fine but won’t load due to missing rb_ary_freeze and rb_struct_new. #rbx

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27771719659

And yes the Linux tests for classic Ruby VM are all ok

Linux testing of the latest fb code went well. 32- and 64-bit Rubies

Firebird 3.0 #Debian Preliminary packaging is available in #Experimental

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This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.

firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.

Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary

#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released

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

Good news everyone,

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!

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

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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

Firebird supports all the #Debian #Linux main Architectures

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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:

    i386
    amd64
    mipsel
    sparc
    powerpc
    kfreebsd-i386
    kfreebsd-amd64
    arm
    ia64
    mips
    s390 = IBM/S390
    superH (sh4)
    alpha
    hppa

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)

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

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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

 

Firebird 2.5: The Real and The Only alternative to #MySQL

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The Firebird 2.5 article is in Italian language
And here is the translation (with highlights from Firebird 2.5 press release)

l progetto Firebird ha da poco annunciato il rilascio della versione 2.5 del suo database relazionale opensource.

Le novità di questa release sono abbastanza interessanti ma ovviamente gli sforzi maggiori sono stati fatti per migliorare l’affidabilità, le performance e la scalabilità del database. Philippe Makowski, presidente della fondazione non-profit Firebird Foundation ha dichiarato che il rilascio di Firebird 2.5 è un passo importante sia per il progetto stesso, visto che cade in questi giorni il suo decimo anni di vita, che per l’intero mondo opensource.

D’altronde, come dargli torto: la comunità sta cercando ormai da un bel po’ di tempo un degno sostituto di MySQL che, nonostante i proclami di Oracle, pare sempre più lontano dall’iniziale predisposizione all’opensource. “Molti nostri clienti utilizzano senza grossi problemi database Firebird che spaziano dai 200 ai 400GB”, ha dichiarato Stewart Sping, CTO della Watermark Software. “I miglioramenti delle performance di Firebird 2.5 permetteranno sicuramente di raggiungere risultati ancora più entusiasmanti”. Firebird 2.5 è disponibile sotto forma di pacchetti binari per piattaforme Windows e Linux a 32 e 64 bit. Maggiori informazioni e download sono disponibili su questa pagina

firebird #ruby driver is building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2

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Brent Rowland wrote on twitter

Got fb building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.9.1. Now for 1.9.2.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27211068760

Got fb building with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. At least on Mac. Under 10.6. Testing Linux and Windows will have to wait for another day.

http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27220817754

Here is the git repository for Firebird Ruby driver , also you can check the
commits log

ps: he is working on Firebird 2.5 support if you wonder what is new in the driver 🙂

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