On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:08:01AM +0100, Paul Reeves wrote:
>
> It also struck me that support for multiple installs in the installer
> may just never be possible. There is a lot of work involved at
> different levels. And it is even worse on linux. There, we are
> planning to move towards distro-specific packages and afaict, multiple
> installs are just not possible at the moment.
Multiple installations would be tricky indeed. On the other hand, having
multiple instances of one installed version is quite easy and we also
have lightweight virtualization techniques like LXC containers which
could be used for multiple installations. So I'm not sure if this is
really limiting.
Just an idea... how about going in the opposite direction and providing
something like Apache (IP based) virtual servers? By allowing to bind
part of the configuration (e.g. DatabaseAccess, ExternalFileAccess,
aliases, ...) to a combination of address and port (or other form of
local socket address), Firebird could pose as multiple virtual database
servers. It wouldn't help with multiple versions or combination of
superserver and classic but it could make handling some of the shared
setups easier.
Michal Kubecek
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