[fpc-pascal] TurboPower FlashFiler for Free Pascal

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 23 15:29:42 CEST 2012


Am 23.10.2012 15:24, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, a catchy title!  ;-)
>
> I want to know if anybody here has ever used FlashFiler in Delphi. Was
> it a good product, and do you think it would be worth the effort porting
> it to Free Pascal?  Or is FlashFiler simply too old and outdated.
>
> I mainly use Firebird RDBMS for all my database needs and think it is
> excellent. I use it in client/server and embedded form under Linux and
> Windows.
>
> But I am also intrigued by the idea of having a true embedded database
> server - compiled directly into my executable for even easier deployment.
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Has anybody else started such a port?

I don't know about FlashFiler, but if you don't need your embedded 
database server to be accessable from outside, I'd suggest you SQLite as 
an alternative to Firebird ;)

Regards,
Sven




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