Firebird mention on the Attlassian blog
The Firebird Project is already using JIRA for their Firebird RDBMS Issue Tracker. And now it’s even easier for developers to search, share and keep up to date with the Firebird Project using FishEye.
[ED: I like how the branches are presented in an good graphical way Also you can watch the changes for Firebird 2.5.x or the head for example ]
Firebird 2.1 (version 2.1.0) is included by default in the Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex that was released on 30 October. To use it you might need this guide and also there is an repository with version 2.1.1 (recommended)
I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows
On Firebird Python mailing list there is an interesting thread about rewriting Firebird Python Driver
Here is Pavel response
These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others
Now you can watch Firebird project and changelog trough the Atlassian’s FishEye
Damyan Ivanov committed patches for building Firebird 2.5 in parallel with make and -j option
This is good in case you have multicpu system
SuperServer builds now with -j8 for 3 minutes on an 4-core Phenom
compared to ~13 minutes without -j; both builds use the system
libedit and ICU.
Damyan asked if we can simplify the packages for firebird 2.5 and
by dropping the old classic support and pushing the super and super-classic
I started to implement a DBX4 Driver for Firebird 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.1, it is for Delphi 2007 and 2009, open source and all code is done with Delphi it self.[ED:Please Send any questions/ideas]
Regards,Cesar Romero
http://blogs.liws.com.br/cesar
