NoOp wrote
On 07/04/2014 12:37 AM, Tom Davies wrote:Hi :) There are a few reasons; * Base needs an external back-end but most new users wont be aware of thatInteresting. I never knew that Base "needs an external back-end"... Perhaps you can get the documentation folks to add that to the help files and the Base docs
This will be unlikely to happen in the short term as the so-called "split" configuration is considered to be for experts only. The idea behind the "embedded" configuration (i.e., a database back-end inside an ODF container) was developed to mask some of the database back-end detail and for portability. While simpler, the embedded configuration is reported as suffering greater data loss / corruption issues, due to the nature of the packaging. There are numerous threads over on the Apache OO forum about problems with the embedded configuration. There is also a lengthy and detailed discussion about Base / ODF container portability <http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/7876> that provides several links to the mentioned Apache OO forum threads. Summary: In order for a "split" configuration to become more widespread it would be ideal for some sort of pack-n-go facility to be developed for Base to allow greater portability of data in a manner more in keeping with office documents. Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-MariaDB-Announce-MariaDB-Galera-Cluster-10-0-12-GA-and-MariaDB-10-1-0-Alpha-now-available-tp4114577p4114677.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted