Give it a shot on BSD and see what your experience is.
Then email the ports maintainer and see what they are
interested in doing about it, the more emails he gets the
more likely he is to resolve any issues I would think.

Even on XP, LOVE firebird :)

John-

On Wed, 05 May 2004 15:13:19 -0000
"Peter M. Jagielski" <peterj@...> wrote:

>John,
>
>Thanks for responding. I'm still hoping that perhaps one
>of the
>actual Firebird opensource developers chimes in and
>responds with a
>more conclusive answer.
>
>I get the feeling that FreeBSD and other OS support for
>FB 1.5 will
>get done when someone simply "feels like doing it."
>
>I'm in the position of laying out plans for deploying a
>application
>that will be using Firebird 1.5. As my company already
>is using and
>paying for a couple of FreeBSD boxes at our ISP, we would
>prefer not
>to have to purchase an additional box (Linux, Win) just
>to run FB
>1.5.
>
>
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