Firebird packages for Fedora, Centos, RHEL

It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.

Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.

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IBO “roadmap”

After a long “winter”, Jason Wharton (IBObjects author)  has posted in IBO support list his plans for the next IBO releases. Check it out:

All,

I just released a new beta version of IBO. I put it in all file areas this time.

Mostly I just finished up converting the rest of the packages I had not yet converted to D2009 and I fixed a couple of the bugs on my plate. The goal of this version is to make the legacy version of IBO work in D2009 but much will remain to make it work as ideal as it should.

As soon as I knock out the remaining bugs I plan to fix and get the installer working for D2009 I will start working on IBO 5. It will be overhauled to work exclusively with Delphi 2009.

I will continue to merge fixes into the 4.x branch of source for all those not using D2009.

So, essentially, I have determined it will be best to maintain two separate source bases from then on. One to support prior versions of Delphi and one to focus on all future versions of Delphi that is extensively overhauled. Of course I will have to put together some kind of an application migration kit as well for when you want to make the jump from 4.x to 5.x.

I’m open to comments and suggestions.

Regards,
Jason Wharton

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64 bit Firebird 2.5, and Solaris Sparc

Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads

“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”

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“InterXpress for Firebird” v2.2.0 released

“InterXpress for Firebird” is our driver that supports Borlands
dbExpress technology! Today we release version 2.2.0 of our driver,
this version includes support for Delphi 2009 and extended support
for widestring/UTF8 data.

You can download a copy of it http://www.upscene.com

Currently supported are Delphi 6, Delphi 7, BDS 2006, Delphi 2007,
RAD Studio/Delphi 2009, Kylix 3 and C++Builder 6.

What’s fixed, new and changed? Check it out here:
version 2.2.0 changes
version 2.1.0 changes

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Time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009

The time for nominating Firebird for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards has arrived! Firebird already won several categories in 2007, now let’s try to repeat it again! Click the button below and fill the nomination form. I suggest to nominate Firebird for the following categories:

  • Best Project
  • Best Tool or Utility for Developers
  • Best Project for the Enterprise

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Firebird Embedded reviewed

I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:

Read more.

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