From 9932dca1481be8823747b687e3bc4ea55e2c7cb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matjaz Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:46:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] New Article. --- articles/2022-01-15_000-firebird.gmi.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 articles/2022-01-15_000-firebird.gmi.txt diff --git a/articles/2022-01-15_000-firebird.gmi.txt b/articles/2022-01-15_000-firebird.gmi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b97a2e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/2022-01-15_000-firebird.gmi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# It is Weekend Again + +I tried to compile Firebird SQL DBMS on OmniOS. Last time I was able to acomplish this was probably version 3 alpha or maybe beta. Definitly not with final release. + +Now version 4.0.1 is here. And Solaris is not really a very atractive platform. And there was quite a lot of refactoring and clanup in Firebird's codebase, so it looks like it is not going to work without major investment in time. Is it worth it? Probably not. I can run Firebird just fine under linux emulation in a Solaris Zone. But it would be nice to run it natively. Let's see if I can get it to work.ΒΈ + +So why would I like to use Firebird. I could just use SQLite or Postgres. I know, but Firebird has a bit of nostalgy for me. I used it before and I like it. It was one of my first database engines. Not really rational, I know. \ No newline at end of file