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Welcome to ScarletDME.org. ScarletDME is a OpenSource MultiValue database, a community fork of OpenQM originally developed by Ladybridge. This project was founded on the 28th November 2008 to independently develop future versions of ScarletDME and contribute to OpenQM.

Submissions to this project must be under the GPL version 2, with the option to use a later version if the licensee wishes. Or they can be licensed under the LGPL if you wish to encourage and allow incorporation into proprietary products. Contributors to ScarletDME are welcome to submit changes back to Ladybridge as well, for inclusion in Commercial QM. See Commercial submissions for details. We encourage submission to Ladybridge, the founder of this MultiValue database. We do recognise their processes are not as easy as traditional GPL projects. So we simply offer an easier forum for development with less stringent controls on contribution and participation.

Name change Some of you may have noticed The new Logo (to your left) With the new Brand name, ScarletDME (Data Management Environment). This is to be the new name for the GPL project based on Ladybridges GPL OpenQM; something to distinguish GPL from commercial. Changing every name reference will take a little time to complete, until then the names GPL OpenQM and Scarlet/ScarletDME will be synonymous. You can reach this site via www.scarletdme.org. The server is a VMWare Server 2 Virtual Machine located in a high-bandwidth datacentre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is hosted by SteveB who maintains a daily backup to a secondary datacentre in Amsterdam. If you can provide a stable high bandwidth backup mirror, please contact him.

This server is DOWN/SLOW around 04:00GMT nightly for 15mins while backing up.

For Users

• Downloads: Source tarball and package builds for key platforms
• Guides & HOWTOs - Index of useful guides and HOWTO's on this Wiki
• QMBASIC Enhancements - QMBASIC features that are custom or were not part of the original GPL release.
• Bugzilla reporting and tracking bugs:
• Documentation - Documented differences from the Commercial Documentation (Check here first, then below)
• Documentation (Commercial Version)
• General support email group: Register then mailto:openqm-opensource@googlegroups.com
• IRC Chat: irc://irc.efnet.org/openqm or java client http://www.scarletdme.org/chat/

Supporting Projects

Various external projects that provide tools for or API's into OpenQM

• Billabong Services' Anji - an open web based file browser and reporter. Eventually to become a RAD system. Pre-alpha grade of code.
• PHP Native API module
• C++ Wrapper
• Steve Bush's Cygwin Port - Is it worth considering a MinGW port? - Would have to replace some posix bits which MinGW doesnt have.
• Kevin Powick's Trident Delphi wrapper

For Developers

For those that want to contribute to OpenQM GPL project.

• Subversion repository: https://scarletdme.org/svn/qmvdb/ - HOWTO
• Development email group: Register then mailto:openqm-dev@dev.scarletdme.org
• Development snapshots - How to obtain, build, and upgrade using the snapshots.
• QM Client API - Documentation and Available API's for the QM remote protocol.
• Wish list - Things that you want & that we need contributors/devs for (lots of small things)
• Dynamic linking - Calling objects written in other languages.
• Installers - Installing scripts/programs or package systems
• Commercial submissions - Sending stuff to Ladybridge

How do I use this site?

If you have a question on USAGE of the community version of Scarlet, then send it to the general email support group.

If you want to discuss DEVELOPMENT of the community version of Scarlet (eg. php5 module) then send it to the development email group (Is this working?).

While the email lists are best for getting attention, permanent changes in this wiki will have a longer term impact so feel free to add or change ANYTHING in this wiki.

External Resources

• Installations - Places where GPL OpenQM is in use (I'm attempting to create a new section for this) - http://capersqm.dnsalias.net/
• Brian Speir's Installation instructions and other downloads
• Tom Delombard's old QM page. Includes details of the tape utilities and the PHP4 module (C Wrapper)
• JD3 is a socket based server for D3 ported to QM
• David Patterson's guide to using PHP with JD3 David's original page has disappeared (unable to contact), so here's the google cache
• David Patterson's guide to using Java with JD3 google cache again

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