Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New user to BASE

On 08/10/2011 04:50 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 07/08/11 03:55, Wayne a écrit :
>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> > A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use
> > BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion
> > was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion
> > as to what would be a good alternative to use?
> > No wars please. Just good advice. Thanks
> LibreOffice Base can do quite a lot, but it requires a fairly steep
> initial investment once you realise that the wizards are a bit limited,
> and thus you become reliant on macro programming for the unmet features
> that would be found in other front end solutions like FMPro or Approach
> or Access, and dare I say it, the fairly numerous bugs that are now in
> the source code (and aren't yet being fixed).
>
> Having used Approach in the past, I would have to agree with Roland if
> all you want is to have a db front end that you can use on Linux (via
> Wine) and Windows. If you want it to provide a front end for Mac as
> well, then you will be stuck with either LibreOffice Base and a fairly
> sustantial choice of server backends, or using some other interface
> design tool for your db such as Ruby, XML forms, PHP, etc.
>
>
> Alex
Would you include Python in that list?
Wayne
>



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