Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

Hi :(
Oh, that is disappointing.  :(

A Kexi dev appeared on the Users List a few weeks ago and said that since the fork away from 
KOffice there has been a lot of development to minimise the amount of cruft/bloat needed.  He 
specifically said that you don't need to install the entire K Desktop Environment to get Kexi on 
Gnu&Linux but i assumed that would be true for other platforms too.  He didn't say exactly when the 
need for cruft/bloat had been removed and i have not tried Kexi.

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 14/9/11, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new 
mailing list?)
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 13:51

Le 14/09/11 12:27, Tom Davies a écrit :

Hi Tom,

> Hi :)
> There is an alternative.  Kexi
>
> It's the KOffice / Calligra equivalent of Base but it is in better shape than Base.  
>
> It already has a fairly strong community of devs.  It is already free of Java and uses a few tiny 
> Qt components instead.  Qt is cross-platform too but apparently it's much easier to write.  It 
> supports a number of back-ends in the same way as Base so we wouldn't be taking a step backwards. 
>  

Not that I want to put a downer on your suggestion, but have you
actually tried installing and running Kexi on Windows and Mac ?

On the Mac, you have to download and install the kde environment via
macports or fink and then compile and install the koffice port from
that...simplicity is not the word here, not to mention all the cruft
that you end up putting on your system for no apparently good reason.


Alex


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