Colin Charles wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:40 +0000, Paul wrote:
Anyway, I never installed JRE before. If Base will be included with
OO2
in Fedora, if it arrives. Would provisions be made for overcoming
this
requirement, or is Base probably out of the picture?
Base uses hsqldb, an embedded Java-based database engine. It requires
some form of a JRE on your system
I hope this hurdle regarding some form of a database engine for the
linux system is worked out. If needing JRE in some form is required, I
am not against that requirement. To get a usable, easy to configure and
manage simple database for Linux is the real goal. An acceptable
alternative for the wintel world would also help with cross-platform
development and usage.
I remember reading one of the RH chaps had been converting it over to
use gcj rather than JRE and some bits weren't playing ball. As soon as
it is working with gcj it will be happy.
That was to get it to build, not to run IMHO
After trying to get base to do anything substantial with either a build
on the wintel platform or on the linux platform, I figure that there is
really a lot of development needed to get this program running in an
acceptable way. I'd love to see it working to an acceptable level. I
have simple file databases originally created in 1997 with msaccess 2.0
(now at 2000) that I'd like to move away from msaccess and get working
with base.
Base on wintel does get to where you can create forms, but intermingles
the form within every application on your desktop.
With the linux (fc test) version, I was only able to successfully create
tables and to open dbase tables that were exported from access.mdb
tables into dbase tables.
The form wizards did not and working with adding items to new forms was
pretty much a "what toolbar or menu choice lets me add an item to a
form, relate the form to a record source or whatever."
It is great for some database frontend functionality is being added to
the program. I would like to see it included or some other simple
database into core or extras, if not this time, FC5.
Jim
--
"I admit I've done too much playing around without understanding
the issues involved over the last years as well, but it's time
to stop reinventing the (sometimes octangular) wheel and learn
everything from history which we can learn."
- Rik van Riel