Helen has a good point. We've just completed a plug-in for Firebird on OSX
for 4th Dimension developers, and this question comes up quite often. As
4th Dimension is cross-platform for Windows and Mac OSX, and Windows users
have an 'embedded' version of FB, the Mac users think that they are losing
out by not having this.

The fact is that as Mac OSX is based on *NIX, we can EASILY create a simple
installer to include FB on the Mac as part of the overall installation
process of any program that will use it, and its not a resource hog so it
works out just fine installing Classic or even Super Server on the Mac
alongside the application that will use it. Almost happens invisible to the
end user.

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Phone (480) 451-7440
Web: www.techsol.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:17 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] embedded for Apple OS X?
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> At 09:14 AM 12/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:
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> >I am looking at getting an Apple and as I have done an app using the
> >embedded version on WinXP I would like to move it over.
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> >Are there any plans to have an "embedded" type version for the Apple OS
> X?
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> No, there is no way to implement it on ***x. But you could use the
> Classic server directly, i.e. in non-networked mode, and its local client
> library (libfbembed.so) if you want to do something similar, i.e. a local
> application with a small footprint and its own server process connecting
> directly to a database.
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