[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134526] Update Firebird to latest upstream version

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134526

--- Comment #11 from Julien Nabet <serval2412 at yahoo.fr> ---
(In reply to leoneo3000 from comment #10)
> ...
> Do you know if there have been any attempts to get people from the Firebird
> community to help out with certain things? Having Firebird integrated in LO
> could be a nice calling card for the Firebird database.
I'm not aware about this, it could be a good idea but not sure they have enough
people to deal with LO. But one can try of course! :-)
I know that sometimes some patches are proposed from LO people to devs of libs.
The interest is to fix pbs upstream and simplify integration of new versions of
libs since you'll have less patches to deal with.

> 
> Also, by the time LibreOffice 7.2 comes out we’re probably a year from now.
> Considering Firebird 4.0 is currently in its second (and last) beta. It
> makes sense to see if some of the current issues with Firebird in Base are
> not actually solved in 4.0. I suspect 4.0 to have been released before 7.2
> is branched.

First version of 7.2 should be released in May or June 2021 I think. Indeed, in
general there are 2 branches per year (see
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan).
About 4.0, I had discussed about it with Lionel Mamane (the Base dev expert who
badfully is far less available now) it needed more work (eg: deal with the
structure of a type which changed from decimal numbers to binary numbers to
stick more with SQL) and as always we had to deal with the compatibility
between odb files created with Firebird 3.0 and odb files created with Firebird
4.0

<digression>
I think the pb is Firebird is not very famous (at least I don't see a big
community for it and not sure searching docs about Interbase the origin of
Firebird will help) but was the only enough "mature" database to propose
embedded possibility with C/C++ connector compatible with license. Ideally, I
would have prefered to use Postgresql or MariaDB but they don't propose
embedded functionnality.
Also  I think it's not very intuitive. For example I'd like to test Firebird
with Firebird tools only but am a bit lost between the different versions of
servers + there's no intuitive web client (equivalent to phpmyadmin,
adminer,...) at least on Linux or perhaps missed it. Sometimes I'd like just to
make some tests like how Firebird deals with the length of types when changing
from a type to another.
</digression>

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