Turbo Power Flashfiler Lazarus Port

[Thaddy]

As for the popularity of SQLite the main reasons are 1) it is a c based embedded database 2) it is under the BSD license and 3) it has a small footprint. Those reasons makes it a good solution for storage limited devices (mobiles phones, tablets etc). it is not its technical superiority over (firebird for example) other databases that it was chosen.

It is not under any license.  see: https://sqlite.org/copyright.html  It is copyright protected, though. It is public domain in the strictest sense of public domain. (Which differs from free software, that includes licensed software)
Because of the copyright protection the only limitation is that you  can not claim to have written it.
It is technically superior to firebird. That's a fact, not an opinion. Although I hate firebird, for the record.
And fpindexer contains a full text search engine, but it is an indexer.

But feel free to use FF. I did so for years. In my opinion it is a bad idea to recommend it, though, for the reasons I mentioned before.
- Not mainstream
- Not maintained
- Can you access your data in 20 years time?

[taazz]

As for the popularity of SQLite the main reasons are 1) it is a c based embedded database 2) it is under the BSD license and 3) it has a small footprint. Those reasons makes it a good solution for storage limited devices (mobiles phones, tablets etc). it is not its technical superiority over (firebird for example) other databases that it was chosen.

It is not under any license.  see: https://sqlite.org/copyright.html  It is copyright protected, though. It is public domain in the strictest sense of public domain. (Which differs from free software, that includes licensed software)
Because of the copyright protection the only limitation is that you  can not claim to have written it.

Does not change the reasoning it only makes it even easier to use but you are right.

It is technically superior to firebird. That's a fact, not an opinion. Although I hate firebird, for the record.

Any proof to support your claim? Which feature are technically superior to firebird? As far as I know it has no concurrent access, limited SQL support (views become available the past year or two if I recall correctly), data types are non existent, they are considered requests not data types (try creating a field with data type thaddy and see for your self) numeric checks follow the string convention more than the numeric one and a number of other falsities which make it a bad choice for any mid to big data sized application.

And fpindexer contains a full text search engine, but it is an indexer.

A full text search engine is an indexer for text it does not make it a database the same way a index of a paradox table is not the database.

But feel free to use FF. I did so for years. In my opinion it is a bad idea to recommend it, though, for the reasons I mentioned before.
- Not mainstream

true then again very few database are mainstream and most of them you have no access to their code.

- Not maintained

Not yet. But its the only one that (if code properly) can go everywhere fpc goes with out the need a C/C++ compiler.

- Can you access your data in 20 years time?

well as long as I have the code the answer is yes. Can you say the same for Oracle? MSSQL? those are as mainstream as they come.

[teos]

I think that Thaddy was right afterall.. Can't find much information that is not at least 3 years old.

Apart from all the pointers and unreadable code, the conversion to Lazarus still looks like a one man action. A database engine is too important for an evening of quick fixes.

But I like the part where server and client are both coded in Pascal. So I looked at the files posted but to no surprise to me, Lazarus 2.0.6 and CodeTyphon 7.0 cannot install the packages:

I wonder if it really was needed to code this in assembly.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. function HasTimerExpired(const T : TffTimer) : boolean;
2. asm
3.   push ebx
4.   xor ebx, ebx
5.   cmp [eax].TffTimer.trForEver, 0
6.   jne @@Exit
7.   push eax
8.   call GetTickCount
9.   pop edx
10.   mov ecx, [edx].TffTimer.trExpire
11.   mov edx, [edx].TffTimer.trStart
12.   cmp edx, ecx
13.   jbe @@StartLEExpire
14. @@StartGEExpire:
15.   cmp eax, edx
16.   jae @@Exit
17.   cmp eax, ecx
18.   jae @@Expired
19.   jmp @@Exit
20. @@StartLEExpire:
21.   cmp eax, ecx
22.   jae @@Expired
23.   cmp eax, edx
24.   jae @@Exit
25. @@Expired:
26.   inc ebx
27. @@Exit:
28.   mov eax, ebx
29.   pop ebx
30. end;

[zzsczz]

Thanks - as stated:

This item might not exist or is no longer available
This item might have been deleted, expired, or you might not have permission to view it. Contact the owner of this item for more information.

Every link that supposedly has source in this thread - all link to OneDrive, and report the above. I would love to save the time I am spending to migrate it to Linux if someone else has already done so.

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AFDr0v7myFuatlg&cid=1CF6E5B11FE74543&id=1CF6E5B11FE74543%21108&parId=root&action=locate

i compile the source  by lazarus 2.2.2(fpc3.2.2) win32 version

project ffserver.lpi  is compiled  without error . but    ffserver.exe   cound not run. The result is in Attach


The FileCtrlExPkg.pkg is  missing when  ffe.lpi(in explorermy dir) is compiled.