[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

Le 16/02/2013 22:40, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :
> Looks like it, Alex! As I said before, I don't really want to use the
> Java version, it

I had an afterthought question for you : do you have libmysqlclient or 
libmysqlcppconn installed on your Nadia box ? These might well be 
necessary for the connector to work. As far as I can tell, when one 
builds the connector it references the libraries on the system, but does 
not copy them into the connector itself. If you have them already, and 
it still isn't working, then it will be dependent on building for each 
OS version and bit arch.


> So, it seems to me that the way to go MUST be a native connector. Do you
> know whether
> MariaDB is doing anything in this direction?
> Regards

The way to go, from what I have gathered, is :

- the Linux distribs will provide the connector for their respective 
distrib versions of LO - since most don't ship the latest version of LO, 
then you won't get one that will work until they move on to the next 
version of LO ;

- on Mac and Windows, it is entirely up to the individual to try and 
build the conenctor, independently of the official version of LO that is 
released ;


- the LO dev team are waiting for the MariaDB team to get involved in 
providing a connector in line with Monty Widenius' statement to help out 
- from what I have seen recently, there is now actually a 
libmariadbclient library - this is a requirement to building a 
functional connector.

No-one that I know of is working on providing a mariadb connector for 
the LO project at the moment, but I am not following the MariaDB project.


Personally, I am starting to learn postgresql administration and 
maintenance, because it looks like the future of mysql connectivity in 
LO is going nowhere fast. I feel like where I was when I first started 
working with mysql 10 years ago, i.e. lost in a jungle of very technical 
information ;-)


Alex





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