On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:15 -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> > 
> > 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.
> 

hmm - well, how about we just table this (xampp stack) for today and
lets see if other ideas come in and we can come back to this tomorrow,
would that be OK?


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