[lazarus] Lazarus and Databases

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Paulo Vaz wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>    Please, We want to abandon Borland Compilers. They are pretty good,
> but  aren't GPL! We start a ERP Open Source Project, but I can't use GPL
> Licence under Delphi.
>
>    This Project will be helpfull for many companies, and individual
> users, so is very important go ahead with this task.
>
>    The problem is: How to setup Lazarus to work with any RDBMS, like
> Firebird (our original Delphi RDBMS)?

- There is a TIBDataset available in Free Pascal. It should be basically
  working, but may need some debugging.

- There are no data-aware controls yet.
  However, getting some simple TDBedit to work should be quite easy and
  straightforward.

- There are ODBC units and components as well, but no TODBCDataset yet.
  It should be easily implemented.

>
>     We are engaged in another Open Source Porject, called MDO (Mercury
> Database Objects), based in IBX Open Source Project for Delphi. There is
> a way to move this project to Lazarus?

The low-level stuff should be portable.

Michael.