-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016-01-22 22:48, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi Ken > > If you speak to the LibreOffice people I'd be very interested in futur e > plans for Base. It seems to have received a lot less attention over th e > years than Writer or Calc. This is, of course, understandable but, > whereas for plenty of users Writer and Calc are a worthy alternative t o > MS Word and Excel, Base is nowhere near an alternative to Access. > > If Base were to adopt an existing free file-based database as its > backend, such as Sqlite, the LibreOffice developers could concentrate on > building a decent form designer to link to it, and adapt their already > excellent visual query builder appropriately. > > It strikes me that few people would want to deal with the complexities > of programming with LibreOffice Basic to build antiquated-looking form s > to talk to a highly inefficient HSQL database that almost nobody else > uses. It's hard to believe that anybody running Windows would abandon > Access in favour of Base, so what is the point of it in its present fo rm? > > Regards > > Nige > >
The person I interviewed was not able to comment outside as he was not on the Engineering team. Other than to agree that Base did need some love. I did find out however that PostgreSQL developers are working on integration with Base, which would then provide SQL support. But remember that this is FOSDEM so if it is developed, it could be a long time before it hits your desktop. - -- Regards, Ken Fallon http://kenfallon.com http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWry1eAAoJECO2jUN3MRFpwY8QALTCpCo973S0rebEVFIDArS9 aDlwt5maWNRW5/VlnBclFo8iRzHfvktQUprSXV3y/61KARK+Z3O71u1pkbHdtcb/ qIh9hfn3BmjUpCjdBppxJ6/tTGblEd3/8QdPTxInBwmaEVmOaQQYutSI/kvddR7p 8j0rHIViLOAqs+YXevoTvlivy0bYymtgsE10A8ue7UdV88KmXqXQICBbY1wFtOUK H1kVEq721FmxkGnMW7kvSRu6JWO5lk/smY0R/XdHAOw8xqiB+sMyocAMv1snb4w0 PAeDldJfRys1vcT7b25LMIcZXILiAZ7PZPheRUH+09FIyn3+lxIUy8FVzsZ64QIH ey97OaLHptUTWdxFaoK9Sh0fgX9IHMzf3kmZjwjFWbQOF81/K5MMC/iy4BJbVftB AvZ55Kyh/eEyTBZPM1M8c2FA/u/+BPMCF8YZYH2EMTrVbNzejzQFh1pheOnkxscG bhf58XTKJr0BDPPKWgptMDa6fhh+nhudoaM9ViEDEQgKysUQehdWlvZAAoJQda9h Fp3mJKRBlvj2ViW8S7DTkc+ul2JsbyLqKB2SnlJCgHwEqc2xvAi/OuZQkwG/mZRR XWRbQtDR89M9P5fZcOSdDEzVvUENZOaBvQKLXhb5xZUOp6gZeWEpX6RUDo0F1hit Sm5cwFOaSE2dHJFcIkf3 =r48f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
