Subject Re: [firebird-support] Kinterbasdb for 2.1 status ?
Author Uwe Grauer
Helen Borrie wrote:
> At 09:40 PM 16/03/2008, Uwe Grauer wrote:
>
>> For this reason i would like to here about the future of kinterbasdb
>> too. I'm sorry to say that without a working kinterbasdb support
>> firebird would be a dead database for me. This would force me to use
>> something different, maybe postgresql.
>>
>> As things look now i can't use firebird 2.1 because of the lacking
>> python support.
>>
>> So what is the current status on this?
>
> You are not asking in the right place. There is a firebird-Python list. As you may or may not be aware, the lead developer of kinterbasedb was killed last summer in a boating accident. Nobody has taken over from him. The Firebird Project needs Python too, as all of our QA tests and the QMtest system itself are written in Python. For this reason, Pavel Cisar is in the process of setting up an official Firebird sub-project for developing a new, fully implemented native Python driver for Firebird (but not InterBase). Help will be needed.
>
> If you have interest in this area, please join firebird-python and make known how you are willing to assist. And please move this thread out of here.
>
> ^heLen

Since both firebird-python and the kinterbasdb forum seemed almost dead,
i didn't bother to ask here. I now placed a request on firebird-python
and hope someone still reads it.
Sorry for misusing firebird-support for such unrelated questions. ;-)

Uwe