Hi James, > I understand that there is work in progress to allow the use of MS > Access (.mdb) files under Base if the operating system is UNIX based > from the MDBTools project. Is this work still in progress or is there > another effort underway. The reason that I ask is this topic has been > brought up more than one time in the [email protected] mailing list > and I brought it up on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list as I use > OpenOffice.org on both the MacIntosh Power PC and MacIntosh Intel platforms.
at the moment, this effort is stalled. See my comment in the CWS mdbdriver02, and the issues added to the CWS, plus the code review attached to issue 55592, for the issues which *at least* have to be addressed. Once they are, we'd have a driver which we know does not provide certain important things (update access, for instance), and may have an unknown number of other issues. Comparing the effort to bring this in an initially usable shape with this uncertainity, we decided that this should be stalled for the moment. This doesn't mean it's not doable, it's just more effort than we have resources for right now. As always, if you find a volunteer, or a company paying a developer because it desperately needs this driver, they will get all the support from us. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
