On 27-7-2011 9:10, Jim wrote: > Hi FreePascal and Firebird people, > (Cross-posted to the FPC and Firebird Development mailing lists) > > 1. Background > ============= > For the upcoming Firebird 3.0 database server release, developers are > working on allowing external languages (at first Java) for writing > stored procedures and functions. > I found this, rather old, reference: > http://web.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=plugins&id=external_java > > FreePascal (FPC) is an object oriented variant of Pascal that looks very > much like Delphi (in fact, there's a Delphi compatibility switch so you > can port your existing code). > > Would it be possible and desirable to have FreePascal as an embedded > stored procedure/trigger language in some future release of Firebird? (I > can't recall this having been brought up before, so I just start the > ball rolling). <snip>
Thanks for the discussion on both lists; I've created some feature requests to keep track of things: Firebird issue/feature request: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3571 FreePascal issue/feature request: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19946 Thanks! _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal