Hi, i’m on the look of using Firebird SQL database engine, instead of MariaDB or SQLite for an Qt6-desktop application as Firebird is the most “lightweight” option for an SQL Client/Server model.
And unfortunately seems OpenSUSE doesn’t ship Firebird packages in any way, except from OBS, which they already are outdated like for 2 major versions behind, while the other distros, the Debian, Fedora/RHEL and Arch based distros has such packages.
The binary install scripts from the official Firebird site doesn’t play nicely with OpenSUSE and i have to build the qt6-sql-ibase driver which is no available in the openSUSE repositories at all, and really don’t want to have another Qt6 setup built from source just for the ibase driver.
There’s any reason why OpenSUSE doesn’t ship Firebird packages in any way?.
The package got removed from TW 4 1/2 years ago, due to packaging issues and a maintainer who seemed not willing to adapt the package to systemd standards.
It only needs a maintainer who picks up the package again to bring it back to the distribution.
Ah, seems my hunch was correct, it was something like flamewar/heated discussions about why Firebird wasn’t available in SUSE.
Really don’t want to switch to Windows or move to another distro just for Firebird, and really don’t wish to swap to MariaDB because MariaDB is a bit heavier than Firebird and needs more installation setups, because i’m intending to deploy it in LAN environments.
i’m using SQLite rn meanwhile, but the application was targeted for LAN environment where like 5 computers in an small office would share the same database, and SQLite is not good for that kind of concurrent R/W access.
