On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > See the essay at: > > http://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html > > Comments, criticism, and feedback are welcomed. > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org
A very good presentation of an good idea. Although I am not a developer or historian of ODP, it is basically an offshoot of OpenOffice. Which may explain why the output is in zip format. Open/Libre Office is Java based. And Java has always had zip file processing integrated into its standard library. I guess that the developers wanted to just use what was universally available, and not depend on other "3rd party" libraries, such as SQLite. The above does not mean that I think it should not be considered, but it does mean that, to an extent, Open/Libre Office would be bound to SQLite as well as Java. Which the developers may not want to do. I do hope that they would consider it. Of course, this would either mean "dual path" in the code for zip ODP files vs. SQLite ODP files or a complete break with compatibility with the old file structure. Which may be "too Microsoft-ish" for them. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
