Am 29.07.2011 13:42, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) Could that community be prevailed upon to join TDF and manage the Base part of the project? Presumably they have knowledge of key players and have a good idea of what needs to be done to improve Base? Regards from Tom :)
Be assured that those guys did their very best to assist the OOo developers at Sun/Oracle with user support, bug hunting, documentation and moderate (doable) feature requests. Now those days are over.
As a heavy Base user I would be very pleased to see a functional, standard compliant, actively maintained, one-way data import facility in LibreOffice. This would require a tiny fraction of the current code without any Java dependency at all.
No more database development in this office suite. No more office users overstrained by abstract data models. Simply connect, query and link already existing, well formed databases to document fields as it always used to work since the first version of OOo. This is how the majority of office users uses Base when they create serial letters without even noticing the .odb file on their disk (well, until they delete it ...).
Like in OOo 1.x, the "Base document" should be a simple registration entry with connection info and some SELECT strings because the "embedded database document" failed completely, drowning gigabytes of user data in binary swamps.
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