Hi :) +1 I think the Firebird internal back-end will improve but since it's not there already there's no point documenting it yet.
I think it would be good to make the point that Base works better when using an external back-end, even if the processes for doing that are not detailed in any way in the handbook. Even just mentioning that clearly in the handbook would be good imo Regards from Tom :) On 10 April 2014 14:23, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 08/04/2014 14:10, Robert Großkopf a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > Same with Firebird. External firebird has only the problem: Autovalue > > isn't implemented, must be written in SQL for every table. Internal > > Firebird has too many problems yet. We hope it would be better, because > > there are functions in the external Firebird many people would need, for > > example the function "List". > > FWIW, I agree with Robert. Firebird is an "experimental" option at > present in 4.2. In other words, the user doesn't even get to see that > there is the possibility to create an embedded firebird db unless they > turn on the experimental options in LO's preferences. > > Assuming that someone foolhardy enough will do that, and then complain > that it doesn't work as intended (which Robert, I, and others all know > about as we filed/validated the bug reports), I still don't think it is > worth concentrating our documentation efforts (including translation) on > an embedded db engine which still has too many failings to be of any > daily, practical, use. The aim of the tool is to be a replacement for > embedded hsqldb and for the moment, this is simply not the case. > > Connecting to an external firebird db has worked for a while now anyway, > certainly before 4.2 (at least with the jdbc or odbc driver, but again > this is not part of the novelties included in 4.2. > > Alex > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
