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Le 14/09/11 03:39, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :

Hi all,

If we had more documentation for and people who really knows Base, it
would be easier to "sell" LO to some businesses.  I know a user that I
had to add Office 2003 to his system since that was a deal breaker.  He
has all of the books and modeling work in data base formats and cannot
"live" without Access.  He created those DBs with MSO 97 and did not
upgrade to MSO 2003 until he switched computers and could not find the
install CD for '97.  So unless LO can easily use Access files and
reports and forms he created over the years, he will not go to LO, even
thought he likes the idea behind LO and FOSS.

So we really need to get more people to learn Base and ways for other to
easily learn how to use it.

Writing documentation for Base is a pointless exercise for as long as
the bugs which hinder the user from actually getting anywhere are not
fixed. Currently it is like trying to sell a new car to someone where,
once you get going, the motor drops out after 5 minutes.

OK, so it is an exaggerated analogy, but realistically that is how it is
today with Base (and it is not a new phenomenon, it has just got
significantly worse since OOo released the 3.4-dev codebase and
LibreOffice started).

It is a chicken and egg situation : people don't want to use it or write
documentation for it, because it doesn't work "as designed". Developers
do not want to fix something that people do not want to use, especially
when :

- the effort just to get into the codebase is huge ;
- you have to know quite a lot about databases ;
- you have to know a substantial amount about Java programming ;
- you have to understand UNO, and how the C++ code within LibreOffice is
bound to the Java functionality that Sun added on and made interdependent.

Not bad for a job description, huh ?

Good luck finding someone prepared to take that on :-))


Alex


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