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