Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bundling FirebirdConfig with FlameRobin

after seeing the Firebird Config tool:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebirdconfig/
http://jhonny.clubdelphi.com/?page_id=71

I thought how nice would be to have something like that with
FlameRobin. And now I was contacted by FirebirdConfig author, Jhonny
Suarez, about having it as a plugin for FlameRobin.

I know we haven't done any preparation for 'plugins' but maybe we
could simply hook it up to some menu item in Server menu and invoke
the FirebirdConfig executable from there, with some parameters. Or
maybe we should work on some generic plugin architecture first to
allow others to create useful plugins as well.

Only obstacles I see so far:

- it's (currently) Windows only, so an #ifdef would have to take care of that
- license is MPL, which is not compatible. It would be good that
FirebirdConfig is released under MIT license (Expat license) or a
similar one, so we don't have to include two licenses in installer.

P.S. Jhonny is reading this list, so we can discuss the details and
you can ask any question to which he can reply.

--
Milan Babuskov

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

flamerobin 0.9.0 for debian is uploaded

Is now uploaded to sid but can be recompiled on other versions


http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin

http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/flamerobin.html




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Flamerobin 0.9.0 ready to install on Ubuntu (Hardy/Intrepid)

All you need is to add my repository
https://edge.launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive

for example on hardy

add in

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.liet

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main

for intrepid
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install flamerobin
or if is already installed 0.8.x on the system
sudo apt-get upgrade



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