alternative driver for firebird (fdb)

[Former user]

fdb.py supports firebird under python2/3

There are only minor changes to the existing kinterbasdb driver.

A patch is attached.

It works for me using python2 and firebird-2.5.2

[Former user]

diff to existing kinterbasdb driver

[Mike Bayer]

are you suggesting the removal of the kinterbasbd driver entirely ? We definitely need to keep existing kinterbasdb support as is, with fdb as an additional option.

While we can put an fdb.py in as is, it would be nice if kinterbasdb and fdb.py could build off the same base, or perhaps fdb can extend from kinterbasdb's classes, so we aren't duplicating code.

[Mike Bayer]

I can get this going if you can help me get the library to build on OSX:

classics-MacBook-Pro:fdb-0.8.5 classic$ export CFLAGS=-I/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Headers;  export LFLAGS=-L/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Libraries; python setup.py  build_ext   Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 7, in <module>
    from fdb import __version__
  File "/usr/local/src/fdb-0.8.5/fdb/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from fdb.fbcore import *
  File "/usr/local/src/fdb-0.8.5/fdb/fbcore.py", line 26, in <module>
    from . import ibase
  File "/usr/local/src/fdb-0.8.5/fdb/ibase.py", line 1789, in <module>
    BLOB_open = fb_library.BLOB_open
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
    func = self.__getitem__(name)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
    func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: dlsym(0x1003ad890, BLOB_open): symbol not found

[Mike Bayer]

the checkin is at 20fe4a012ebf6140a53191032e00d3bda7540553. if we can get that build above I can test.

[Former user]

I asked the firebird project, who replied:

The latest Firebird 2.5.2 don't have this issue

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-2-rc1/

Which version of Firebird are you using?

[Mike Bayer]

2.5.1 from the site, will find some time to try again, thx

[Mike Bayer]

great, 2.5.2 is fine and the fdb driver works as implemented, I've made it the default in 0.9. 82c11cc94b41323caeec

[Mike Bayer]

Removing milestone: 0.8.xx (automated comment)