Re: [Flamerobin-devel] RFC: New FlameRobin feature - open unregis tered databases

[Samuel I. - V. AG <sam...@ve...>]

As I was the user who posted the feature request in question, I may try to
explain why I think commandline operation might be useful; even on Windows.
I frequently need to quickly open a firebird db for testing or sent by a
customer. One of the most convenient ways to do this is doubleclicking the
database file. This is possible when registering flamerobin as OPEN action
for .fdb Files but I need to be able to specify the database on the
commandline. Also the ability to specify username / password in environment
variables (as mentioned by another post) would help. Other db specific
settings like charset are always the same in my case, so using some defaults
for these would be ok.

For me one of the main advantages of Firebird compared to other db servers
is that each database is fully contained in 1 database file and can be
moved, copied etc. easily. The commandline feature in FlameRobin would
complement this.

I cannot comment on the single/multiple instances question as I don't know
the internals of FlameRobin, but I think the way of handling the cmdline
database connections as "temporary" connection, as proposed by Micheal seems
quite reasonable to me.

Cheers
Samuel Iseli