Hi, On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:19:32PM +0100, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote: > On 24/06/13 12:25, David Tardon wrote: > > If this is the current option, could we please consider the possibility > > to drop the whole idea and just stay with hsqldb? With my distro hat on, > > I do not see any improvement with having to bundle hsqldb vs. having to > > bundle firebird. > The main motivation for the switch was (another step in) getting rid of > java (at least for me personally it is, and AFAICS for most other people > too), and not the bundling of a db.
IMHO that is a wrong reason. We should be choosing another DB because 1/ it promises a good backwards compatibility of its data format (so the ODB created with one version of the DB can be opened with newer versions) and 2/ it does not force us to use a specific configuration to achieve 1/ (so we are not forced to bundle the DB), not because "it is not java". Getting rid of another java dependency should be just a nice side effect. > And there appear to be solutions to > allow reliable use of external firebird with various ICUs (see mails > from Lionel/Michael) -- so either way firebird still makes the most > sense to me. _If_ it can be done, great, and I am all for firebird. But if it cannot, I would much rather stay with hsqldb. D. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
