Vulcan

Vulcan Development

Vulcan Snapshots

Regular (nightly) Vulcan Snapshot builds can be downloaded from:-
http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/snapshot_builds/vulcan/

Background Information

"Vulcan" is the project name for the next major version of Firebird, the documentation outlined below, gives both developers and users an insight into the project, what it is and what it intends to do.....

• 16th Dec 2003 Vulcan Announcement
• 27th Feb 2004 Vulcan Status February 2004

User Documentation

• 30th Apr 2004 Vulcan Architecture
• 30th Apr 2004 Vulcan Configuration
• 27th Jan 2005 Vulcan Overview (.pdf)

General Developer Documentation

Useful background knowledge

• 13th Dec 2003 Y-Valve Architecture
• 19th Dec 2003 DSQL, the Universe, and All That
• 19th Dec 2003 Y-Valve and Coding Conventions
• 23rd Dec 2003 The OSRI Architecture
•  4th Jan 2004 Configuration File
• 25th Jan 2004 Dynamic SQL, Plumbing, and the Internal API

Build Documentation

•  6th Aug 2004 Building Vulcan on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio 7
• 30th Dec 2004 Simple, One Click Build of Vulcan on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio 7

Specific Developer Documentation

Must read stuff

•  5th Jan 2004 Restructuring DSQL
• 25th Jan 2004 Gpre, JDBC and a Modest Proposal
• 30th Jan 2004 Vulcan CVS Tree Jan 2004
• 10th Feb 2004 The CVT Module
• 29th Feb 2004 OSRI Gateway's
•  9th Mar 2004 Vulcan on Linux
•  9th Mar 2004 Memory Allocator
• 11th Mar 2004 Dsql Parser
• 26th Mar 2004 Internal JDBC Support
• 28th Nov 2004 Non-Blocking Memory Manager
•  3rd Dec 2004 Work in Progress: Lock Manager
• 19th Dec 2004 Thread Safe Vectors in Vulcan

Vulcan Rules

Defines the project "rules" of engagement for developers participating in the project. These rules are open for discussion where appropriate. A copy is also avilable in the root of the CVS tree.

• Vulcan Project Rules

CVS Information

To check out the source code:
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.firebird.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird
project name is "vulcan"