openoffice

[Jim Cornette]

Colin Charles wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:40 +0000, Paul wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Anyway, I never installed JRE before. If Base will be included with
>>
>>OO2 
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>>>in Fedora, if it arrives. Would provisions be made for overcoming
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>>this 
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>>>requirement, or is Base probably out of the picture?
> 
> 
> Base uses hsqldb, an embedded Java-based database engine. It requires
> some form of a JRE on your system

I hope this hurdle regarding some form of a database engine for the 
linux system is worked out. If needing JRE in some form is required, I 
am not against that requirement. To get a usable, easy to configure and 
manage simple database for Linux is the real goal. An acceptable 
alternative for the wintel world would also help with cross-platform 
development and usage.


> 
> 
>>I remember reading one of the RH chaps had been converting it over to
>>use gcj rather than JRE and some bits weren't playing ball. As soon as
>>it is working with gcj it will be happy.
> 
> 
> That was to get it to build, not to run IMHO

After trying to get base to do anything substantial with either a build 
on the wintel platform or on the linux platform, I figure that there is 
really a lot of development needed to get this program running in an 
acceptable way. I'd love to see it working to an acceptable level. I 
have simple file databases originally created in 1997 with msaccess 2.0 
  (now at 2000) that I'd like to move away from msaccess and get working 
with base.

Base on wintel does get to where you can create forms, but intermingles 
the form within every application on your desktop.

With the linux (fc test) version, I was only able to successfully create 
tables and to open dbase tables that were exported from access.mdb 
tables into dbase tables.
The form wizards did not and working with adding items to new forms was 
pretty much a "what toolbar or menu choice lets me add an item to a 
form, relate the form to a record source or whatever."

It is great for some database frontend functionality is being added to 
the program. I would like to see it included or some other simple 
database into core or extras, if not this time, FC5.

Jim

-- 
"I admit I've done too much playing around without understanding
  the issues involved over the last years as well, but it's time
  to stop reinventing the (sometimes octangular) wheel and learn
  everything from history which we can learn."

	- Rik van Riel