Re: [us-marketing] Pulling a disc together for SCALE

On 01/31/2011 10:02 AM, drew wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:31 -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote:
> > On 01/31/2011 09:20 AM, drew wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:14 -0500, drew wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:03 -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote:
> > > > > On 01/31/2011 08:00 AM, drew wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > First in a couple emails today regarding the TDF/LibreOffice booth at
> > > > > > SCALE.
> > > > >
> > > > > HI Drew:
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for this effort.
> > > > >
> > > > > What are your thoughts about also including ODBC and JDBC drivers?
> > > >
> > > > Easy answer - license (you know which ones :) and links please - I can
> > > > see no reason to waist perfectly good tracks on a blank DVD.
> > > >
> > > > sqlite w/ jdbc driver would be nice IMO.
> > >
> > > sorry for the double post.
> > >
> > > I was thinking about a windows version of MySQL, but I'm really not sure
> > > on that. Thoughts?
> >
> > Yes. There's an interesting implementation of a LAMP stack: XAMPP
> >
> > http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
> >
> > Very nice. Performs well on my Windows 7/64 laptop. I think it's best w/
> > Cygwin, but I haven't used it w/o Cygwin.
>
> Well my only reservation as I think about this in general is that this
> is a one off disc for a Linux festival and maybe hitting the windows
> stuff too strong is not the way to go - are you thinking of having the
> complete xampp distro on the disc?

I think that's the only way to go for Windows. I cannot see why an end
user would install a mysql server, which leaves developers, which leads
to XAMPP.

W/R/T ODBC and JDBC. I now think this is a duplication of effort.

I'm looking at the OpenOffice wiki (which is where I originally found
the OO <--> mysql connection info). My thought here is that the CD might
include the MySQL  Java connector.  The downside is that the connector
.jar needs to be associated w/ the Java installation (i.e. Java path),
not the LibO installation. I don't really want to get into packaging
details, i.e. including the .jar in a RPM or DEB. I think that's a task
best left to those distros.
 see that LibO is in Debian Experimental. See
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice

The package already includes database connectivlty options for Base. See
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice-base

And, of course there's the 23-Jan-2011 zdnet post.
See
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-opts-for-libreoffice-over-oracles-openoffice/8122

BTW, for future reference, I run Debian Testing/Unstable on AMD-64. I've
used Debian for software developement > 10 yrs.

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