Thanks for the reply, that answers most of the questions I asked. now, for the firebird client for OS X, doing it "by hand", any tips for me to explore this direction?

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, philippe makowski <makowski@...> wrote:
>
> wang960 [2012-02-03 02:53] :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Got three questions:
> >
> > 1) Is it safe to access a 1.5 fdb from a 2.5 firebird client?
> yes
> > 2) seems to me, if you want to have fb client in OS X, you have to install the server, is there a package that simply installs the client?
> yes
> > reason for this is, there is already an existing 1.5 firebird server running in a linux box, I need only client in a OS X computer, possible?
> possible certainly
> but you have to do it "by hand"
>
> > 3) Similar to #2, but for Centos linux.
> easy
> From EPEL repository
> yum install firebird-libfbclient
>