Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org>
* Package name : firebird3.0 Version : 3.0.0.28785-Unstable Upstream Author : The Firebird project <http://www.firebirdsql.org/> * URL : http://www.firebirdsql.org/ * License : Mostly Initial Developer Public License 1.0 (MPL-like) Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : feature-rich, scalable, relational database Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000. Firebird 3.0 represents the project's next milestone release and it currently gets the most of the development efforts. It's going to offer some important and highly anticipated features that were promised for a long time already. * Revised architecture, including new authentication and configuration subsystems * Scalable (SMP/multi-core friendly) multi-threaded engine with a shared page cache * New ODS (version 12) with new system and monitoring tables * External (Java, C++, etc) stored procedures/triggers/functions * Reworked optimizer and new data access methods * Security enhancements * Various SQL extensions Thhe first alpha release is planned for Q1 2011 released in Q1 2011 Be aware that the ODS (on-disk structure) hasn't been finalized yet, so databases could be incompatible between different unstable builds and you'll have to either recreate them or migrate them via backup/restore. This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any problems. firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy approaches releasable state. Preliminary packagiing is available at http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101017110441.30363.74921.report...@pc1.creditreform.bg
