On 15/12/15 07:50, jan iversen wrote: > > >> >> Let's just drop all of Base in 6.0. Split it off into a separate project. >> Databases is a big enough area to have its own application suites. We don't >> include email, photo editing, music production, or electronic design >> automation in the LibreOffice "suite" either, to mention a few areas that >> would equally "naturally" and "usefully" fit in. > > Dropping it sounds hard, we should replace it by a generic interface, > allowing our code to do sql operations, and third party can instanciate the > interface to their pet db. >> >> (Just my personal opinion. I don't expect anybody to actually agree.) > Surprise, we are (at least) 2. > Given that I want to write a MultiValue (NoSQL) database for LO from scratch, what happens then? SQL is not the preferred interface :-)
But I was thinking a bit along those lines, and actually having a database as part of the Document Foundation would be nice, but it wouldn't really fit as part of a monolithic office. NB - my idea is what I *want* to do. It seems a bit pie-in-the-sky at the moment :-( Michael knows my personal situation which does rather get in the way a lot :-( However, if anybody wants to muck in and help, I've got the bulk of the design laid out in my head - I just need a bit of help to get started, and lots of time (which gets taken away from me at the drop of a hat :-( Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
