On 01/31/2011 10:02 AM, drew wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:31 -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: >> On 01/31/2011 09:20 AM, drew wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:14 -0500, drew wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:03 -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: >>>>> On 01/31/2011 08:00 AM, drew wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> First in a couple emails today regarding the TDF/LibreOffice booth at >>>>>> SCALE. >>>>> >>>>> HI Drew: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for this effort. >>>>> >>>>> What are your thoughts about also including ODBC and JDBC drivers? >>>> >>>> Easy answer - license (you know which ones :) and links please - I can >>>> see no reason to waist perfectly good tracks on a blank DVD. >>>> >>>> sqlite w/ jdbc driver would be nice IMO. >>>> >>> >>> sorry for the double post. >>> >>> I was thinking about a windows version of MySQL, but I'm really not sure >>> on that. Thoughts? >> >> Yes. There's an interesting implementation of a LAMP stack: XAMPP >> >> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html >> >> Very nice. Performs well on my Windows 7/64 laptop. I think it's best w/ >> Cygwin, but I haven't used it w/o Cygwin. >> > > Well my only reservation as I think about this in general is that this > is a one off disc for a Linux festival and maybe hitting the windows > stuff too strong is not the way to go - are you thinking of having the > complete xampp distro on the disc? > >
I think that's the only way to go for Windows. I cannot see why an end user would install a mysql server, which leaves developers, which leads to XAMPP. W/R/T ODBC and JDBC. I now think this is a duplication of effort. I'm looking at the OpenOffice wiki (which is where I originally found the OO <--> mysql connection info). My thought here is that the CD might include the MySQL Java connector. The downside is that the connector .jar needs to be associated w/ the Java installation (i.e. Java path), not the LibO installation. I don't really want to get into packaging details, i.e. including the .jar in a RPM or DEB. I think that's a task best left to those distros. see that LibO is in Debian Experimental. See http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice The package already includes database connectivlty options for Base. See http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice-base And, of course there's the 23-Jan-2011 zdnet post. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-opts-for-libreoffice-over-oracles-openoffice/8122 BTW, for future reference, I run Debian Testing/Unstable on AMD-64. I've used Debian for software developement > 10 yrs. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
