CVS repository
If you want a fresh copy of firebird but can’t because the problem of
the anonymous CVS, you can download the whole FB CVS tree at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/firebird-cvsroot.tar.bz2
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Google Summer of Code 2006 site is open for ideas
Summer of Code 2006 site is open for ideas
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
As organizations begin to sign up for Summer of Code, you will see a list of organizations and links to their ideas for student projects. We are not taking student applications just yet, see the FAQ for more details.
[ED: firebird foundation or ibphoenix can add some ideas now and participate as mentors]
Warning! Serious GBAK issue!
From Dmitry Yemanov – Running GBAK -C by a non-privileged user (i.e. neither SYSDBA nor database owner) causes an original database to be overwritten instead of the expected “database already exists” message.
This bug seems to be inherited from IB 6.0 and it exists in all FB versions. However, FB 2.0 is not affected due to different default restore rules.
More eyes on the code = better quality
From Dmitry Yemanov – Adriano dos Santos Fernandes has joined the Firebird code reviewing team (we can now call it a team, since there are now two people involved in this task – Claudio and Adriano). Adriano will be assisted by a grant from the Firebird Foundation.
flamerobin added new developer , newbie tasks
New developer joined flamerobin team
Details are: Bart Bakker from Zaandam, Netherlands.
IronPython + Firebird .NET provider 2.0
IronPython + Firebird .NET provider 2.0 example code
Win32 Classic and keepalive packets
From Dmitry Yemanov:
It has been discovered recently (thanks to Eugene Kilin) that Win32 builds of Classic Server did not set up some socket options properly, including SO_KEEPALIVE. So if you have troubles with “zombie” processes not terminating after the keepalive internal, this is the reason. The patch has been committed into HEAD today and it will be available in the v2.0 RC2 release.
Also, Windows builds (both SuperServer and Classic) are now in sync with the POSIX ones and also have the Nagle algorithm disabled by default. If you want to change this behaviour, set the config option TcpNoNagle to zero.
RC1 is out. What’s next?
From Dmitry Yemanov:
RC1 has just been released. There will definitely be RC2 as well, as we have to complete the documentation and solve some minor installation issues. Also, there were a few regressions fixed in the meantime.
knoda 0.8.1-test3 released
About:
Knoda is a KDE database-frontend for DBase, Firebird, MSAccess, MySQL, Paradox, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and ODBC.Besides tables, views, and queries, it also handles forms
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Data Application Block for Firebird SQL (The Code Project)
The Firebird SQL data application block is intended to speed up development, and it should be used in conjunction with data layer classes in much the same way as Microsoft’s data block. The sample included with this article uses the embedded Firebird SQL database (included in sample) to demonstrate the use of the application block without having to bother setting up a database.