Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

Thanks, Alex, for your very informative message! As I mentioned before, I
have set up my DB-connection to use ODBC in the meantime. Time will show whether
this will be good alternative. At the moment it seems to be o.k.
By the way - in spite of my remarks regarding Java/LO I have also downloaded
and set up the JDBC-connector under LO 4, just to see whether it still is "buggy"...
Regarding MariaDB: I have been kind of interested in whether it would stay
around after the original "euphoria". This seems to be the case, looking at
statistics I saw a short while ago. I am quite prepared to migrate to it
when I can spare a couple of hours, since I do have my reservations regarding
proprietarily controlled software.
Just as an asid -  I "come" from lots of years with IBM and have seen what M$,
Oracle and others have "contributed" to IT. I did get to know Ed Codd and Chris Date
("inventors" of SQL), got DB2 going at a large customer here as a kind of "first"
within the German language area for an application system based on a couple of
millions of records. Database has been a "passion" for me for a long time. After all,
it is one of the essential pillars of any serious DP-system.
Regards
H. S.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:34:17 +0100, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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