Hi All

After some private discussions, I have put in a request to register the
names,

Firebird Ashes and
Firebird.

as projects on sourceforge.

I think that it will take some time to settle on a suitable name (there
are too many people in the world - and all the good names are usually
already taken).

There have been a number of suggestions, and even one already registered
(White Knight - I think). So these may be temporary depending upon how
things evolve.

There have been a number of suggestions about how to proceed here.
And a number of people have suggested things in these groups. Including
the mers CVS repository.

Source Forge I think provides good infrastructure support for opensource
projects - mainly because most of the projects I have followed have
migrated there.

I was nominally thinking of "Firebird Ashes" as the initial project for
gathering together all the released interbase code and probably getting
it to
a basic compile stage.

Then after discussion and agreement on what sort of "derived product"
and
"derived license" is allowable and desired. We can consolidate it under
the
newer "Firebird" project.


What does everyone think of this?


Im willing to take some lead on this, but will need help.

The short term aims are:

1. To get Inprise/Borland to release the full source code CVS tree,
the current CVS release is slightly old and doesn't match the
binary.
And there are several missing modules (IBObjects,
internationalization).
Hopefully in the spirit of opensourcing interbase Inprise
will make the
complete source code available.

2. To get a reliable build system that works on both the linux
and win32.
others to then follow.

All future discussion of this issue should probably confine itself, to
the newsgroup mers.interbase.build. Where it looks like I'll be living
for a bit.


Regards

Mark

PS: The name apparently originally came from Ann, as a suggestion. I
kinda
like it but as I said before, these things usually end up already
registered as some kind of vacuum cleaner or something.