On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:00 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> or (b) your company pays SUSE/Redhat to allocate one of their
> developers to it.
Heh ;-) Of course, there is also Canonical, Lanedo, and any number of
other S/W consulting firms that could help out.
But - of course you're right; the basic way to get things fixed is to
fix them yourself, and we're eager to help self-motivated problem fixers
with code pointers, tips, build help etc. etc.
So - indeed, the first step is to get a build. After you have that,
resurrecting the old mdbtools CWS / patch set would be a good idea.
The -real- reason we havn't shipped mdbtools in anger is that it is not
reliable / good at write support. If we are not writing into the
database - we need to migrate it to something else on load. If we are
migrating it to something else, we want to run hundreds of miles up-hill
rather than migrate tens of thousands of users to using hsqldb in anger.
So we're blocked on getting a nice sqlite backend in-tree that we're
confident enough in to replace hsqldb, such that we can resurrect the
mdbtool stuff so that ... ;-) so it is rather a linked problem.
OTOH - it'd be great to have help with any part of that you like.
All the best,
Michael.
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michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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