Re: [gnome-db] Firebird driver

[Faghmie Davids <faghmie aquasoftware co za>]

Cool. 

I will check out the latest version and then use that.

I will let you know if anything is broken or when/if I make more
changes.



On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 23:14 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11 December 2011 08:58, Faghmie Davids <faghmie aquasoftware co za>
> wrote:
>         Hi Vivien,
>         
>         Sorry for the late response.
>         
>         Here is my patch file so far for the firebird provider.
>         
>         It only run select statements. Your feedback and guidance will
>         be
>         appreciated.
>         
>         There is still quite a bit missing, but at least I can now
>         select data
>         from a firebird database :-). Please note that it does not do
>         the input,
>         parameters for statements.....mainly cause I never use it :-)
>         
>         If there is some interest I'll work some more on it ;-)
>         
>         Please ignore the changes to the files needed for compilation,
>         I was
>         just messing with it to get it to compile.
>         
> 
> I've applied parts of your patch, see
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgda/commit/?id=1d8eba10492401e6b94114269742ac623c3292d9
> 
> The modifications I've made are:
>       * removed the irrelevant changes you mentionned
>       * modified the code to respect the coding style of the other
>         parts of Libgda
>       * have 2 providers build for Firebird: one using the client
>         library, and one using the embedded version of Firebird.
> I haven't yet tested it (I have to set up a Firebird server), so I
> only checked that it compiles. About the remaining work to do, I'd
> really like to have the Firebird provider a 1st class database
> provider in Libgda, so some more work is needed. If you have some time
> that'd be great you do part of it (prepared statements, blob support
> and debug info removal mainly).
> 
> Thanks for your work!
> 
> Vivien
>