Scribus needs Firebird

Scribus is an open-source
program that brings award-winning professional page layout to
Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination
of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.”

I am not involved or capable of being involved, but Scribus is an
excellent program with a devoted and highly competent community of
developers.

I have over the last year or so been contemplating my eventual need
for a CMS. I use Firebird as a backend for a major project I’ve been
developing for many years, as well as other smaller in-house
projects.

Scribus currently supports MySql (AFAIK), and is also apparently
attracting a wealth of interest via Google’s Summer of Code.

http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=137

Independently and in concert, I believe, with SoC, there appears to
be major interest in expanding Scribus into a CMS.

It would be a major loss (at least for me 😉 if Scribus did not
provide access to Firebird.

This link provides access to some discussion about Scribus and
CMS/Database/

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Draft_of_end-to-end_publishing_solution

There’s also a list that those interested can subscribe to.
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus

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  • Currently Scribus supports databases only via the Python scripter plugin. In the future we will have to decide if that is enough or if we need a C++ database client also. If so, Scribus should use a standardized protocall like ODBC to connect to different databases. Any recommendations?

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