Hello,


two days ago I noticed some thread in Lazarus/FPC forums mentioning
Firebird. I knew about it from before, but never bothered to research
more about always thinking that for my usage as application's fileformat
and/or storage back-end Sqlite3 is good-enough.


Now, after being interested to learn and use FPC/Lazarus, Firebird has
fanned my interest...did some reading about it, installed it on my
Debian (Sid), watched several slide-presentation, did some chatting in
#firebird...and now have few questions...


As someone who would like to use Firebird mostly as embedded database
(of course, no idea what the future will bring about) and just aobut to
start learning about it, do you recommend to start with 3.o which is
available in Debian's "experimental" in order to avoid re-learning stuff
during 2.5 --> 3.0 migration?


What about the docs? 3.0beta2 release notes are extensive, but I wonder
about QuickStart Guide and Language Reference? Are the old docs still
mostly relevant for learning Firebird?


Is there any plan to produce The Firebird Book Third Edition covering
3.0 in paper soon? (I simply like holding concrete books in my hand and
despite having Kobo ereader prefer to read from the paper.)


It seems Firebird is good option for FPC/Lazarus development, do you
have any specific hints in regard?


Let me also congratulate Firebird devs for making it possible to have
Firebird as default (still experimental) database in LibreOffice!!




Sincerely,
Gour


--
Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose,
and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus,
the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched.




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