Re: [Libreoffice] Base Development

I totally agree. We use base with an external Postgres database to
collect data, use Calc to analyse the data with Base and then Writer to
present the results (for project Billing).

In my opinion Base is pretty good and nicely integrated with Calc.

Problems seem to be related to
- the (internal HSQL) database - (slow)
- drivers
    - postgresql SDBC driver broke (currently being fixed, see
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/PostgreSQL-SDBC
    - jdbc drivers (both Mysql and Postgres) unusably slow)
    - odbc driver (postgres) buggy
    - postgresql SDBC driver is in debian and ubuntu part of LO, but no
one seems to be building the 'extension' for Windows
    - same for Mysql (this I am not sure of)

As building drivers from source requires building whole LO (as I
understand, and did for Ubuntu) this is not really an option. Users need
to be able to download these extensions or the whole of Base (and in a
large part LO itself)  becomes unusable. That would be such a waste.

Right now the Lo Extension Center seems to be in testing, so hopefully
the situation will improve (for Windows user especially).

Ferry


Op vrijdag 23-09-2011 om 15:21 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef NoOp:
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> I'm sorry that you, and apparently others here, feel that I'm "wasting
> developer time". IMO Base is a key and primary component of LO, and it's
> outfacing representation, use and capabilities to those that use LO are,
> to me anyway, important. I'm not the enemy here, I'm just trying to get
> a handle on the development status of Base in order to present facts
> about the product when users, particularly new LO users, ask questions
> about it on the user list. I prefer factual responses to FUD. Anyway,
> again "Sorry for the intrusion as a 'user'." and I'll not waste any more
> of the developers valuable time.
> ...