On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 06:59:56PM +0100, Andras Timar wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane <lio...@mamane.lu> wrote:
>> evaluate https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56904 >> which is Windows-specific, so I don't really have a clue how to do >> it and what it entails, but I expect it is rather easy if one >> already knows one's way around msi (Windows Installer) files and >> how we generate them. >> Is it "easy" enough for EasyHack? Can you outline to the lucky >> winner that will pick it up how to do it? > IMHO hacking MSI is not easy by any means. It's probably easy only for > an installer expert. I'd add the AccessDatabaseEngine.exe to a > CustomAction and call this CustomAction in the install sequence. It > may work. But why add a 25MB 3rd party package to LibreOffice, which > will benefit a tiny fraction of users? We don't even bundle Java, > which has a wider audience. I think it's enough to add a paragraph to > help, with the link to this MS download page. An iterative improvement would be to, on connection to an "Access 2007" datasource: 1) Detect whether it is installed, by checking for availability of that specific ADO driver (not by checking Windows Installer for a specific ID!). 2) If not, have a popup that explains the situation and gives the link. (I believe we have such a pop-up for Java, minus the download link.) Why would we bundle it? Well, so that things work "out of the box". Because contrary to Java, this "3rd party package" is a rather obscure thing for users. Because since it was bundled with most versions of Windows, users actually never were aware that LibreOffice was using this third-party package under the hood. Do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages? You have a point, that's not clear, maybe even dubious. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
