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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] Database for OpenOffice
From:       Nick Gorham <nick () easysoft ! com>
Date:       2002-03-18 16:19:19
Message-ID: 3C961387.C10AEBE8 () easysoft ! com
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Frank Schönheit wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> > Well the ODBC interaface does look like it needs some extra work,
>
> This surely holds. Given all the thousands of flags which affect each
> other, a really good driver accessing all the possible ODBC drivers
> out there is quite some piece of work. And surely the current ODBC
> implementation in OOo is far from beeing perfect.

It doesn't seem that far from sufficient, but does seem to need testing
with more drivers.

>
>
> One more reson (in my opinion) to focus on integrating such
> established standards as ODBC, instead of trying to come up with
> even more suggestions to the user. Let the user choose what
> database to work with, and try to tie this database to OOo as
> perfect as possible.

That would be my suggestion, make the OO ODBC impementaion work to a
correct driver and let others (myself included) make the avalable
drivers conform to that interface.

--
Nick Gorham
Easysoft Ltd




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