Oh great! Congratulations! This is quite a big and important task - with this we make a big step forward to get Libreoffice Java free. Happy coding.
Best regards, Tomaž On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Andrzej J. R. Hunt <andr...@ahunt.org>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm excited to announce I've been selected to work on LibreOffice for > this years GSOC! > > I'll be working on implementing a Firebird SQL connector for Base in > order to replace HSQLDB as the current default, which would allow for > removing java as an LO dependency, allow for more unit-testing etc. (See > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51780 ) > > The plan is to use Firebird 3 (which is currently an alpha release, i.e. > stable API), since it provides a native C++ api and is considerably > easier to embed than (the currently stable) Firebird 2.5, which only > offers a C api. Work will probably be happening on feature/firebird > which will be born as soon as I have the first bit of code ready to commit. > > The first portion of the project is implementing the actual database > connector (and linking Firebird into the LO build system, based on how > other external projects are handled), which should take roughly a month > according to my estimated timeplan; after that I'll be getting onto more > interesting things like looking at migration from HSQLDB, implementing > tests and otherwise polishing things. > > I'll be blogging about my progress: you can either see all my LO related > posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/libreoffice ] or just my GSOC 2013 > posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/gsoc2013/ ] (the latter link isn't > up yet). I'll probably also be keeping the mailing-list updated with my > day to progress. (My IRC nick is ahunt.) If desired I can also post my > GSOC proposal/timeplan here/on the wiki. > > (During the course of the summer I'll probably also be working on the > Firefox OS port of the Impress Remote I implemented last year, which > will be independent of the GSOC work I'm doing.) > > Some less exciting background information: I'm currently in the leadup > to my exams which take place next week (I'll probably be internet-free > that week), after that I'll be free to start full-time hacking on > LibreOffice for the summer, although I'll try and get some work done on > getting Firebird building in LO this week. I'm currently in the second > year of Engineering at Cambridge University, and will probably > specialise in Electrical/Information Engineering from next year onwards. > I'll be based in Cambridge and in Switzerland during the course of the > summer. > > Cheers, > > Andrzej > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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