TDBF vs TurboPower FlashFiler

[HeavyUser]

I made:
'Error code:'+ IntToStr(ExceptionCodeXY)+'  (Soner todo)';
;-)

Because  other things was importanter.

yeah those are a bit of a secondary concern but need to be addressed at some point.

[tatamata]

Hello.

What is the status of FlashFiler porting to Lazarus?

[Graeme]

I believe it has been ported to FPC under Windows, but not any other platform yet.

[SunyD]

Here:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,34834.0.html

[Thaddy]

I see you had problems with the server.
I didn't You need to compile de dll's with sharemem and add fpcmemdll.dll to the distributions. That's all.

[eldonfsr]

Sorry for topic i download but i dont see any lazarus package could you explain how to install or make work this with lazarus on test folder all project are for delphi... we have to convert.. 

[Thaddy]

You should not use any of those formats. Use a sane solution, like Sqlite.
If you start using Tdbf or FlashFiler you are frankly disconnected from your brains.
Both are only useful in recovering old data, but should be prohibited from use in modern code.
That is not an opinion but a FACT.

[tatamata]

You should not use any of those formats. Use a sane solution, like Sqlite.
If you start using Tdbf or FlashFiler you are frankly disconnected from your brains.
Both are only useful in recovering old data, but should be prohibited from use in modern code.
That is not an opinion but a FACT.

Thaddy, what about enthusiasm to have a pure pascal database engine?
As far as I am aware, only two free SQL database engines written in Pascal are FlashFiler and janSQL. I think both deserve some kind of preservation and effort to make them alive.
janSQL is preserved and also embedded in ZMSQL, while FlashFiler is seamingly dead?

[Thaddy]

There are more pure pascal database engines: PerfectView for example (pays part of my pension) and there is a complete version of sqlite translated into pure pascal, but that is not open sourced (yet).
However: it is not the language in which something is written, but the sustainability over time and both of these are silly choices.

[korba812]

The main problem with FlashFiler is that it uses the Windows message queue everywhere (server's internal queue, for communication with embedded version of server as well as asynchronous network connections via winsock with notifications via Windows messages), so it is not portable code.

Some time ago I came across a ThinkSQL project:
https://github.com/ggaughan/ThinkSQL
https://www.thinksql.co.uk/
It looks promising, although the GPL license may be a problem, so using the built-in version may be restricted (although currently there is no such possibility at all).