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
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?