LO / Firebird DB Integration

[Andrzej J. R. Hunt]

Hi all

Apologies, I messed up the subject line there.

On 28/05/13 19:48, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
> Hi Miguel, Javier, Andres
>
> I've just seen that you are working on a Firebird DB connector for
> LibreOffice -- I've just been selected to work on this as part of the
> Google Summer of Code -- it would be cool if I could also work with you
> on implementing this! (I'm currently still studying for exams but will
> be working full time on this from roughly the 10th June.)
>
> The major issue I can see at the moment is selecting which version of
> Firebird to use, which I see is also being discussed on the
> Firebird-devel list [1]. All the details are in that thread -- but
> basically it looks like FB3 won't be out until next year and there isn't
> much documentation of the new API, on the other hand it looks like FB3
> will be easier/cleaner to use. Personally I'd favour implementing 3.0
> for those reasons, but that would mean that it couldn't be shipped as
> the default DB in LibreOffice until FB3 is stable, which I can see as
> being a convincing argument for using 2.5 instead. As far as I can tell
> the API should be stable from the first alpha release of FB3 [2], i.e.
> API changes shouldn't be an issue if using 3.0.
>
> I'd be interested to know what your views are on this / which version
> you've been using so far? I guess the LO developers in general might
> also have some input on which is preferable?
>
> Also have any of you looked at integrating Firebird into the LO build
> system yet, as this was one of the first things I was planning on doing
> (although that is dependent on the choice of FB 2.5 vs 3). I think
> Andres mentioned he was concentrating on developing on Linux at first --
> I could look into the Windows specifics for Firebird to ensure things
> are as cross-platform as possible from the start (although I should
> probably mention I don't have too much Windows experience yet, and my
> system isn't the fastest for building stuff there).
>
> I've create a wiki page where I'm putting down some notes on whats
> happening here -- I've also extracted the technical discussion and the
> estimated timeplan from my GSOC application in case that's useful to
> anyone else:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Base/FirebirdSQL . Feel
> free to add to/edit that if you wish.
>
> All the Best,
>
>     Andrzej
>
> [1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.devel/2969
> [2]: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/roadmap/
Cheers,

    Andrzej