VKDBF - components for Clipper files with NTX support

[zilez2003]

If someone could help with http://sourceforge.net/projects/vkdbf/ .

Regards,

Zoran

[tatamata]

Zoki, ajd' malo obajsni o čemu se radi...što pokušavaš postići s tom komponentom, itd...na engleskom, naravno

[zilez2003]

ok, explanation is: this is component for native access to dbf files created with clipper ntx indexes. I use it with Delphi 6 ( ok, ok, i know) to access database files used by software in our company. i didnt find almost any other components that are easy to use ( or even possible ) with ntx indexes. In order to try to switch to some other version of Delphi or to Lazarus, i asked Vlad, author of component to upgrade it. he is not in possibility to do that, but he approved that component can be open sourced. I am not expert in changing/compiling this, so i hope someone could help, not only to me but to comunity.

eto, to je to.

regards,

zoran

[marcov]

License seems to  be GPL3, which is very restricted for a library.

Anyway, if you have specific problems in building don't hesitate to ask, and I'll see if I can reproduce.

[BigChimp]

Mmm, if it's GPLv3, I'm not interested either.
Edit: yes, seems to be:
http://sourceforge.net/p/vkdbf/vkdbf/ci/master/tree/BIN/license.txt

Something like LGPL+linking exception (like FPC/Lazarus uses) would be perfect...

Good luck, and please post on the forum if you hit problems!

[marcov]

I tried a quick compile and then it misses "dbcommon".  But probably first the Delphi version handling needs to be cleaned up, I see about 100 ifdef ver130,ver140 and ifdef delphi6.

If sb wants to retain Delphi compat, it is probably worthwhile by naming all reasons for ifdefs, and then to start mapping (compiler+)versions to these reasons. See chapter two in http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf

[exdatis]

See chapter two in http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf

Thank you very much, Marcov!

[zilez2003]

Hi All,

To be honest, I pushed Mr. Karpov to open source this, because he wasn't will (lack of time and interest) to upgrade to newer versions. I have asked him to change the license, so he probably took last (I suppose GPLv3 is last among GPLs ?) version. To be honest, I am not sure did he check what are real consequences of using GPLv3.

I would like to ask for someone to advice what GPL would be acceptable, so I could ask Vlad to change license?

I personally don't use Lazarus, and I would need component which would work with XE3, nut again, if someone could build this to work with Lazarus, I would reconsider switching to Lazarus.

I can't help with any advices about code - Mr. Karpov is not interested to work on this, and my role was just to bring the code to SourceForge.

I hope this helps.

Zoran

[BigChimp]

Something like LGPL+linking exception (like FPC/Lazarus uses) would be perfect...

For use with Lazarus/FPC, LGPL v2 with linking exception would be very nice; see attachments for license text.

[BigChimp]

I personally don't use Lazarus, and I would need component which would work with XE3, nut again, if someone could build this to work with Lazarus, I would reconsider switching to Lazarus.

Ah I hadn't realized you weren't using Lazarus at all...

I'm slightly interested in VKDBF as I'm one of the maintainers of the TDBF version used by FPC/Lazarus (which we still need to merge with the one on SourceForge), but not enough to start a porting effort.

[zilez2003]

License changed to one proposed.

I hope someone could help.

Also, I really hope this nice component can be made to work with Lazarus.
If someone could help to update this also for some Delphi newer versions, I would be grateful.

Regards,

Zoran

[marcov]

Don't forget to update bin/license.txt

[zilez2003]

I believe I did it.
Should I do something more than this ?

Regards,

Zoran

[BigChimp]

Don't forget to update bin/license.txt

Checked; it was updated indeed. Thanks a lot!

[marcov]

Probably my inexperience with GIT. I did a fetch, but it is still gpl3.

To checkout, I used the cmdline as suggested by SF