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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Standalone KOffice for Linux, Please
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2008-08-26 11:40:18
Message-ID: 48B3EBA2.4050405 () iidea ! pl
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John Jason Jordan said the following, On 2008-08-24 06:58:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:23:13 +1000
> Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> dijo:
> 
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:10:35 pm John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>
>>> However, I have to take exception to the comments above about Kexi. I
>>> recently needed to use data from a Microsoft Access database. OOo
>>> could not do it, but Kexi came to the rescue. That was the good part.
>>> The bad part is that Kexi does not yet implement all the capabilities
>>> of SQLite. 
>> ... 
>>> OOo Base solves all my data needs
>> Presumably except for retrieving data from Access databases.
> 
> Indeed, that is a limitation of OOo Base. However, the Windows version
> of OOo Base can read Access databases, and the Linux version (which is
> what I use) will be able to soon.

This is the most dangerous design decission during the OO Base development 
IMHO. Have been mentionging this many times - on Windows it uses MS libs so, 
the same as MSA does, so there's a lock in you won't remove anytime soon. Again.

We have unformal policy to standarize on open and portable 3rd-party 
libraries. I can see value in this.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
  Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on
  Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org/kexi)
  KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org)
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