Hi, > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:14:29 +0200 > From: Even Rouault <[email protected]> > To: Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" > people? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Selon Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]>: > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a ?crit : > > >> Hi Even, > > >> > > >> can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the > > >> only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and > if > > >> not, can it benefit from your recent additions? > > >> > > >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html > > >> http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > The MDB driver (with Jackcess library) indeed already supports normal > MDB > > > files. But it is a bit of a pain to use (needs linking GDAL with a JVM > and > > the > > > Jackess .jar), so the latest improvement to the ODBC driver should > make it > > > easier. > > > > But your improvements are only supported in windows, right? > > Yes. But there would be no problems to make it work on Linux too, like it > is > done in the PGeo driver, but personnaly I don't see the interest in doing > so, > since in my experience, MDBTools, the Unix MDB ODBC driver, under Linux > (particularly 64bit) is too broken to be usefull
Does this apply for the new 0.7 version of mdbtools? It seems to have a low profile because it is on github instead of sourceforge... http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29472144 Alister _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
