Bug#83098: planning to ITP: FireBird 1.0/InterBase 6.0
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-10
A word about what FireBird is. It is completly independent (of IB) product
based of IB 6.0beta code that was released undel MPL-like license.
There's a group of programmers improving and bugfixing this code since
many months.
There have been RFP and ITP of FireBird in the past, but none succeeded
till now (#68406, #83098).
FireBird is moving forward to its 1.0 release - to be expected very soon
now. But it is still not an easy package even if it's binaries are production
ready. Especially for debian there will be much effort to make debian
compliant. That's why I cannot say at this moment that I really _will_
package it.
(By packaging I don't mean putting binaries together as in alien'ed rpm,
but really packaging it like it should be done).
It has /opt/interbase hardcoded in many places.
It has loop dependencies on already running FIB/IB server (!).
It is big.
It's build system seems to be messy in some places (IMVHO).
I already managed to remove those loop depends - I am able to compile
current CVS version w/o having server installed/running - ONLY from
sources (took me 4 days day to day work to get to this stage - uff...).
I just fixed the way sources are cleaning (now I can finally get a diff
between my debianized sources and original) - and moving further to
altering install scripts.
My plan is to continue work on this package, as I find it very interesting
piece of software. Anyway I cannot promise when I have sth that can be
tested. There's a lot of work to do. There are other packages closely
related to this DB engine that will have to be packaged too.
Here's the URL in case You want to look at the project:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
I'll keep You informed about the progress.
If You have any good ideas, advices or comments - I'll gladly read them
and discuss if You want.
BTW: I am not DD yet ;-) but that shouldn't be any problem here.
Grzegorz Prokopski
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux greg 2.4.18-p3lvmpe #2 nie sty 13 19:53:59 CET 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.ISO-8859-2, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL
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