On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 10:42 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 01/12/2017 à 23:08, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : > > Hi Harvey, > > You are correct, it would improve the user experience of Base by an > important measure to have a GUI UPDATE capability. This is something > that has been desired by users since the days of StarOffice, through > OpenOffice.org to the present day with LibreOffice. We're looking at > a > period of over 20 years here. > > As of yet, no developer has stepped up to the plate to provide that > functionality, bearing in mind that the precursors to LibreOffice > were > curated by some rather large corporations, it could have been done, > but > sadly never was. The fact of the matter is that Base is still rather > the > "runt" of LO development. One of the reasons for this is no doubt the > complexity of having to understand both database programming > principles > and specificities and the LO code behind Base itself. There are > easier > targets for developers to pick and choose, and so these tend to get > chosen over something meatier like what you are asking for. > > Currently, Base development goes in fits and starts. Current Firebird > integration was the result of at least one GSOC project (two or three > in > fact, I seem to recall). The fact that the transition to Firebird as > the > default embedded database engine is still not complete, is an > indication > of the lack of interest in seeing things through, unfortunate though > that may be. > > There are several other areas where Base development could do with a > serious boost, but unless developers can be attracted to them, very > little will change. Some of the core developers working on other > areas > of LO never touch anything database-related and in their humble > opinions > if Base were to disappear in a puff of smoke, they wouldn't be > particularly saddened. Indeed, they would probably be happier that > the > code had been lightened by several tens of thousands of lines of > code, > and not least, be rid of all Java dependencies. > > > So, you see, it is an uphill battle just to keep what we have, let > alone > develop new features for it. > > > > Alex >
Ah...thank you Alex. What a pity, all those programmers are missing a wonderful opportunity to give someone joy in life!! ;-) Cheers Harvey -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
