[libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

Hi :)
Some interesting articles and comments on 4.0.0.  Not all completely precisely accurate and quite a 
lot of the comments are clearly either deliberate FUD or hopelessly confused people that need help. 
 There are some gems in there though and i liked this one in ArsTechnica

"

DannyB | Wise, Aged Ars Veteran

about 10 hours ago  

"scuttle22 wrote: So now Libre Office depends on Java AND Python."

> From a Slashdot post that I saw:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si ... d=42822061

To be precise, as computed by sloccount, libreoffice-4.0.0.3.tar.xz contains:

cpp: 3990644 (87.04%)
java: 400958 (8.75%)
ansic: 91036 (1.99%)
perl: 42456 (0.93%)
python: 17392 (0.38%)
sh: 17256 (0.38%)
yacc: 8228 (0.18%)
cs: 6648 (0.15%)
asm: 3269 (0.07%)
objc: 2602 (0.06%)
lex: 2030 (0.04%)
awk: 907 (0.02%)
pascal: 800 (0.02%)
csh: 235 (0.01%)
lisp: 115 (0.00%)
php: 104 (0.00%)
sed: 7 (0.00%)

However, as Desler said, the Java bits are actually optional.
"

It seems that a common misunderstanding is that people often seem to think Base is completely 
dependant on Java and that Base is used by everyone.  Neither is really true.  

Base seems best when connecting to an external back-end and it's much easier to do that with Base 
than with Access.  Base really pushes people into using an external source of data.  If you choose 
a java-based back-end then Base will effectively be using java.  If you choose a non-java back-end 
then it wont [shrugs].  I guess that is really difficult for people to grasp.  

I guess the misunderstanding arises because Access uses an internal back-end for it's data so 
people try to force Base to use it's own back-end too instead of doing something sensible.  To be 
fair i am doing exactly that too.  Bases internal back-end uses java.  

Hmmm, i can see myself running into a problem now that i have uninstalled java from all works 
machines!  Time for me to be a bit more sensible and work at migrating the data tables to a decent 
external back-end.  (There are a couple of old posts that should be able to help me so no worries 
there)   

So, the main thing i found interesting was the breakdown of different percentages of languages used 
in LibreOffice.  My guess is that non C++ is gradually being replaced by C++ but there's still 
12.94% left with most of that being java which is mostly in easily avoidable wizards and Extensions.
Regards from
Tom :)  

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