NoOp wrote > On 07/04/2014 12:37 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> There are a few reasons; >> * Base needs an external back-end but most new users wont be aware of >> that > > Interesting. I never knew that Base "needs an external back-end"... > Perhaps you can get the documentation folks to add that to the help > files and the Base docs
This will be unlikely to happen in the short term as the so-called "split" configuration is considered to be for experts only. The idea behind the "embedded" configuration (i.e., a database back-end inside an ODF container) was developed to mask some of the database back-end detail and for portability. While simpler, the embedded configuration is reported as suffering greater data loss / corruption issues, due to the nature of the packaging. There are numerous threads over on the Apache OO forum about problems with the embedded configuration. There is also a lengthy and detailed discussion about Base / ODF container portability <http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/7876> that provides several links to the mentioned Apache OO forum threads. Summary: In order for a "split" configuration to become more widespread it would be ideal for some sort of pack-n-go facility to be developed for Base to allow greater portability of data in a manner more in keeping with office documents. Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-MariaDB-Announce-MariaDB-Galera-Cluster-10-0-12-GA-and-MariaDB-10-1-0-Alpha-now-available-tp4114577p4114677.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
