Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-26
Working packages of FireBird 1.0 are available at:
http://sente.pl/debian/
(You may want to set Your http_proxy to
http://itnunix.itn.pwr.wroc.pl:8080/ to access above site via better
outside world link)
If You're interested in FireBird/InterBase - please try them.
Any opinions, ideas, patches are welcomed.
There are 4 types of packages - by multiplying 32/64 bit IO and two
Server architecutres - Super (threaded) and Classic (standard unix
processes). Plus there is -doc package too.
Warning: they change as I build new and improved versions, but are still
at 1.0.0-1 number, so look at timestamps of the packages!
Things that render them not-yet-ready (besides technical ones):
1. need to fill copyright with proper credits and copyrights
2. need to learn what is the license of bugs/features/opened/closed
documents in html format
3. need to learn what is the license of release_notes.pdf
4. need to check on what architectures is FB really reported to build.
ad 2 and 3. - authors just didn't decided about it yet (but it didn't
stop them from putting them on website for download). They want to
avoid possible non-original documentation flying around and not
differing from original. Advice here would be greatly appreciated,
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ad 4. - from release_notes it only supports i386 and sparc
(we're talking only about Linux systems), but I was told it shouldn't
be too hard to make it working on other arches too - there's one
.h file to be altered about system ID, its endianness etc.
If You want to work on porting FB to other arches - please let me know.
Happy testing!
Grzegorz Prokopski
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