LO / Firebird DB Integration

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:31:22PM +0300, Andres Gomez wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 11:25 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:18:06PM +0300, Andres Gomez wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 20:20 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > > The firebird specific libraries (fb builds its own versions
> > > > > libicuuc/libicudata/etc.) are currently in install/program/firebird/lib
> > > > 
> > > > really?  it bundles its own ICU?  argh... can you teach it to use the
> > > > LO's ICU instead?  no reason why we'd need to ship 2 sets of ICU libraries.
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > As I was writing in the wiki:
> > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development/Base/FirebirdSQL#Compilation
> > > 
> > > We may hit some problems if we use LO's or systems ICU with the table
> > > indexes.
> > > 
> > > I think the safest would actually be to use always FB's internal ICU
> > > copy but other possible approaches are possible in order to face this
> > > problem.
> > 
> > I think you are thinking too short.
> > 
> > Nnote that most distros will simply build with
> > system-firebird. (and whatever THAT one is built against - looks
> > like that it's *external* ICU here:
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/libfbembed2.5)
> ...
> 
> That's why in the initial discussions we were already talking about
> removing the possibility of "system-firebird" and always using an
> internal compilation:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development/Base/FirebirdSQL#Compilation
> http://firebird.1100200.n4.nabble.com/Firebird-as-backend-in-LibreOffice-td4633330.html

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.

D.