Paul:

> 1/ At the moment there is no control panel applet to start and stop the
> server service. Sure, there should be. Anyone want to write it? As
> usual, the Firebird project will provide whatever assistance and
> guidance is necessary.

I can do this. Let me know if I should start it. I think this is an easy
task, except I don't have any experience of doing a control panel applet,
but I will sekk some info in google.
I'm working now on the portuguese translation of the Release Notes, but it's
a job that will take a few days (weeks?) to do.

> 2/ The Firebird project has no open source GUI client tools at all at
> the moment. Sure, there are several candidates. IB_SQL is a possibility.
> There is no problem with distributing it, but it is not really part of
> the project. Additionally, to build it from source requires IBObjects.
> This is not an issue for many, but it does get us into licensing issues.
> Plus, I for one don't want to get into favouring IBO over FIBPlus or
> vice versa.
> There is also IBAccess (...)

I aggree. There is enough info on the release notes also!

Artur