On 01/31/2011 10:39 AM, drew wrote: > 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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