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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
