Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] dbExpress drivers for the RAD Tolls from Borland DELPHI, C++ BUILDER, KYLIX

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

Jrgen Arndt wrote:
> 
> In this moment, i stay a little bit confused witg the Open-Source Interbase
> (STOPED) and
> Firebird (go ahead). I Use the RAD tool DELPHI 6.0. Will Firebird service
> native Drivers to Firebird or only by ODBC. How locks the future to service
> the RAD tools DELPHI and C++ Builder and Kylix.
> 
> I think this are question that is very important for me and i think for many
> other people to.
> 

Firebird does need its own dbExpress driver. However, somebody needs to
write it. It is a fairly straightforward project. The code for the MySQL
driver has been published. There is a lot of experience with writing to
the Firebird API. But a months work is probably needed for a project
like this. 

If anyone wants to take it on I believe that Firebird would happily
include it as part of the project and provide help in writing and
testing it. But it really needs someone to take charge, write most of
the code and see it through to completion. It is something I'd like to
do if I had the time, but that time just doesn't exist for me at the
moment.


Paul
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