Hi :) >From what Andreas says the whole of Base would benefit hugely from being >pruned right back to about OOo's 2.0 or earlier. Andreas' idea sounds too >radical but i think Dan is onto something here.
Most of the problems seem to be about the embedded version of HSqlDb which is horribly ancient and apparently is anyway tweaked past breaking point. HSqlDb is one of the few things left that forces dependence on java. Forcing people to use an external back-end would make Base far less like MS Access but it would cut right back on the problems people raise on the Users List with regards to Base. I kinda agree with Mark, that it would further marginalise something that is already almost entirely unknown but i think it would be worth it, to get back to a good starting point that could be built from. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Dan Lewis: GS with Base 3.5? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 15:05 Mark Stanton wrote: > I think that that would be an extremely bad idea. > Why take something that's currently still really marginal and then > marginalise it even further? > > Mark Stanton > One small step for mankind... Perhaps because it would not make it any worse than it is now. The changes I propose are to do what is already done when connecting to a database using HSQLDB 2.8: have the database files in a separate selected folder instead of the .odb file. Forms, queries, and reports would remain in it. Most of the necessary code already exists. When creating a new database, a person would see very little difference from now. Create new database would be selected as now. An additional step having the person select the folder to keep the database files or create the folder. Then the third step would be the same: register the database, select the name for the .odb file, and where to save it. The .odb will contain the location of the database files as now. It would require another wizard to convert the embedded databases to the new system. It would move the database folder of the .odb file to a selected location renaming the database folder to the person's choosing. The new location for the files would be written in the .odb files as is done presently when connecting to an external data source. --Dan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
