Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-02 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On 1 August 2016 at 21:49, Girvin Herr wrote: > On 08/01/2016 11:35 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > On 1 August 2016 at 00:16, Girvin Herr > wrote: > > > Ken, > One thing about Kexi. I looked at it a few weeks ago and discovered that > Kexi has a capability of readi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-07-30 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
t can be adopted everywhere. (and we would call it standards instead) I'd like to remind none of these concepts (tables, queries, forms, reports, etc.) are part of the Open Document Format standard or any draft I know. Cheers. > In other words, i blieve it is not hopelessly impossible and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc as a Flat File Database

2016-03-16 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
operate, be it Kexi launched in 2003 or its younger brother Base. Please note that in our development model you're co-author of the software so the responsibility to work efficiently is shared, well, then the fun is shared too :) ​ -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice git repository!

2016-02-13 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
ir own infrastructure. The latter uses GitHub just for read-only mirrors; in order to contribute you use the Free infrastructure. The code is a bunch of files so these can be copied but I think you can imagine what happens if one day issue tracking system (such as GitHub) disappears. There's no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Base and MySQL

2016-01-26 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
et-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- regards, Ja

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Base and MySQL

2016-01-21 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Base and MySQL

2016-01-20 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libra Office on a Mac Mini (compared to Ms Office or default installed iWorks Apps)

2015-09-17 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
n MS Visual Studio if C++ was a secret language developed by competition... [*] Which is not legal in some countries :) -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Cal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-06 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On 6 March 2015 at 19:32, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 06.03.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek: >> On 5 March 2015 at 17:32, SOS wrote: >>> >>> Stefan , >>> >>> Macro's can "live" in any document so also in a "Standalone form&

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where is Base?

2015-03-06 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
e sqlite3 that -based on reports- almost never crashes for users) is handled in the same way as any server so there are no special cases. Asking because of an intent to harmonize behaviours and approaches. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-04 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
sounds still very "Access way" no matter how we criticize it. Also and idea, for a higher level operation is based on 3-tier architecture where users have access to business logic and not to physical database instances. Reasons being: reliability, maintainability and security. -- regards,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-08 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
indeed lowers the cost. But it's hard to claim that attracting by lowering the cost was the original plan. (you're right if by cost you mean something else than the raw money) -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, transla

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-08 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
mmunity to vote there. I remember LQ from maybe 2006. It seems that LQ staff do not contact the teams about their plans for subsequent polls. We can construct other of similar scale on G+ for example. Too often people tend to read these overly generic polls as "Cheapest Office Suite".

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-02 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
rt/export specification description format. We can do that and more! [1] So deeply that they decided to use Java backend and put a db file in a ZIP container risking breaking ACID principles known for years, and removing typical efficiency of databases (in-place writes). -- regards, Jaroslaw Sta

Re: [libreoffice-users] PDF export checking whether the file is locked (opened) by another program before starting exporting over it

2014-12-01 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
file. This is unlike in LO Base which non-atomically extracts/copies to contents. So this is a one-file - one-app model, and the file is not meant to be used over network (MS Access performance issues have no place here). On 1 December 2014 at 06:35, Brian Barker wrote: > At 19:56 30/11/2

Re: [libreoffice-users] PDF export checking whether the file is locked (opened) by another program before starting exporting over it

2014-11-30 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On Sunday, 30 November 2014, Brian Barker wrote: > At 13:55 30/11/2014 +0100, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> >> Google for "acrobat reader file locking" and you'd notice that this unnecessary locking is inherent issue of Windows. You're dealing with behavior largely

Re: [libreoffice-users] PDF export checking whether the file is locked (opened) by another program before starting exporting over it

2014-11-30 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
subscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > A

Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-16 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On 16 November 2014 21:57, Eric wrote: > I've googled a bit and did not find anything. Has anyone coupled mongodb and > base together yet? Just curious, how would you combine relational databases with the document-oriented ones (such as mongodb)? Do you have use cases? -- regard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

2014-10-08 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
. Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not a part of LO or Kexi. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committe