[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-13 Thread V Stuart Foote
Alex Thurgood wrote > If the back-out is complete, i.e. master has returned to the previous > status quo, this is unfortunate for those of us who would like to test > whether the migration works and report those issues to bugzilla... The back-out is not complete--and LO base is actually broken

[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/04/2018 à 07:09, V Stuart Foote a écrit : > As of this evenings builds of master the FB3 driver is back to > experimental, so Tamás' request for Firebird data testing in Base is on hold > as this gets sorted. > As I understand it, the commit you link to refers to a revert of the removal

[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread V Stuart Foote
Italo Vignoli-5 wrote > ... > > So, any "radical" deprecation of features should be evaluated not only > in technical terms, but also in marketing/communication terms. We cannot > get rid of a feature without giving users a reasonable amount of time to > migrate their data (and the fact that they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 12/04/2018 12:22, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > I somehow doubt that this will be seen as a suitably satisfactory > solution for most users... I think that this specific announcement should be evaluated carefully to avoid a disruptive impact on the user base (although the number of Base users

[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/04/2018 à 17:19, Robert Großkopf a écrit : > Hi all, > > have put the content of the mail I wrote to a bug-report: > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116944 > Thanks Robert. Tamas has indicated on the dev mailing list that the binary content of the hsqldb database