Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

Hi :)
Good point!  Swapping the ones that do work and dropping the ones that don't sounds good.  

Ideally the Extensions site would have a table with LO version down the side and platform/OS along 
the top.  There would be a few holes but at least people would know which need to be updated or 
which version of LO to stick with.  I don't see the point in removing stuff that does work under 
the right conditions.  

> From what i gather it 'only' needs someone using the relevant platform and relevant version of LO 
> to compile the connector from source and the source is easily available.  The problem is that 
> "only".  I compiled something once but i didn't have a clue what i was doing and just followed 
> instructions very closely.  Luckily the instructions were good and it worked.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 9/5/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] My story
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 9 May, 2012, 11:29

     What could be the reason for this? One person can use the native
MySQL connector to connect in Windows but can not in Linux. Another
person use it to connect Linux but can not in Windows. Likely, the first
person has the version that should be used in a Windows OS, and the
second person has the version that should be used in a Linux OS. This
connector is OS specific. Perhaps these two people should send each
other the version they have.
     On the LO website, the native MySQL connector has been pulled for
all OS's until more work is done on it. But the sad thing is that there
is not enough people that can do the amount of work required for keeping
this extension updated as newer versions of LO are developed.

--Dan 
     
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:47 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
> Hello Tony,
> Funny - I find exactly the opposite: the native MySQL-connector works perfectly
> well under Windows/Vista with me, but I cannot get it to work under
> either Debian-Wheezy or Linux/Mint-Lisa. Even though there is a lot of
> discouragement regarding the usage of JDBC under LO (them obviously wanting
> to diminish the dependency on Java!), I am actually using the JDBC-connector
> on my Linux systems. It seems somewhat less buggy than ODBC.
> In any case, I am trying out the native MySQL connector under Linux EVERY new
> version of LO - so far with no success. If I had the time to do so, I would
> compile the connector myself.
> I have been using Base under both OO and LO for years (after using Lotus/Approach
> before). What I REALLY want to do is build an application system for the
> administration of a wind band (musicians, literature, uniforms, concerts,
> supporting members and outside business contacts, etc., etc.) based on one of
> the available frameworks (eg. Symphony). So far I have built my "homepage"
> (www.rainermusik.at) using the PHP-Framework "Seagull". Unfortunately there
> doesn't seem to be much going on within that framework anymore.
> Regards from Salzburg
> Heinrich
>
> On Wed, 09 May 2012 10:09:32 +0200, Tony Sumner <tony@whittycat.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > A while back Tom asked people to tell their stories so this is mine.
> >
> > I started with a project to create an application using a DBMS to
> > manage our local currency. This would be used by relatively basic
> > users who would almost certainly want to use Windows. I already had a
> > working knowledge of MySQL and I knew how to use that to do all the
> > admin tasks but I needed a GUI to do data entry and report writing. So
> > I started by trying to connect LO to MySQL with the ODBC connector.
> > After a lot of reading I installed the MyODBC connector, created a
> > driver and a DSN amd LO said "Can't find driver" or something like
> > that. I thought I'd try it in Linux to get the hang of it before
> > settling down to work in Windows and this gave me "Can't find library"
> > or something like that. Then I found that LO will connect to MySQL
> > directly without the need for a connector so I tried that and it
> > worked. But this facility is not available in Windows.  OOo does have
> > the facility to connect directly to MySQL in Windows so at last I can
> > get on with the project. OOo does what I want and OOo Base is pretty
> > much like LO Base so I'm afraid it is goodbye LO.
> >
> > Been good to know you
> >
> > Tony
>
>
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