Hi Michael, On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:06:35PM -0500, Michael Lam wrote: > I would like to update some of the Java libraries used, starting > with hsqldb.
It seems like updating this will require a deep insight in OpenOffice Base code, there was work going on in a dedicate Mercurial CWS to update to HSQLDB 1.9 http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/hsqldb19/ Unfortunately the developer (Ocke Janssen) is no longer working in OpenOffice. > Is there any preference to getting the source and building the jar or > just grabbing the jar from the project site? You should support, via configure, building the JAR from sources and use the --with-system-XXX switch in order to use an already compiled version existing in the target system (this applies to Linux, not WIN; for WIN AOO ships all stuff). Simply run ./configure --help and read a little configure.in, you'll see this approach used for other JARs with a compatible license. > There are four BZ issues in reference to hsqldb with patches, I am > going to test the new version to make sure those issues are resolved > but they are very old. Should I open another issue for this? If you are planning to update to 2.2, then this is a new task. > Is there any recommendation/objection on this? After hsqldb I would > like to move on to lucene. In this case, it would be nice to investigate if lucence can be replaced by clucene, this will reduce the need of installing Java for basic stuff, like the Online Help. > Just a general question, there are many old issues on BZ for example > there are 96 for hsqldb but most of them are from 2006 and is > referring to an old version of OpenOffice, would it be possible to > close very old issues? Depending how you close the issue: closing an issue as FIXED requires verification, closing it as WONTFIX requires simply an argument why it won't be fixed. In the case of hsqldb, IMHO issues should be checked if they are still reproducible, and once the newer version is integrated, it should be checked if updating simply solved them or are still open. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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