[GSOC]Introduction / Implement Firebird SQL connector for LibreOffice Base

[Tomaž Vajngerl]

Oh great! Congratulations!

This is quite a big and important task - with this we make a big step
forward to get Libreoffice Java free.
Happy coding.

Best regards, Tomaž



On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Andrzej J. R. Hunt <andrzej at ahunt.org>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm excited to announce I've been selected to work on LibreOffice for
> this years GSOC!
>
> I'll be working on implementing a Firebird SQL connector for Base in
> order to replace HSQLDB as the current default, which would allow for
> removing java as an LO dependency, allow for more unit-testing etc. (See
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51780 )
>
> The plan is to use Firebird 3 (which is currently an alpha release, i.e.
> stable API), since it provides a native C++ api and is considerably
> easier to embed than (the currently stable) Firebird 2.5, which only
> offers a C api. Work will probably be happening on feature/firebird
> which will be born as soon as I have the first bit of code ready to commit.
>
> The first portion of the project is implementing the actual database
> connector (and linking Firebird into the LO build system, based on how
> other external projects are handled), which should take roughly a month
> according to my estimated timeplan; after that I'll be getting onto more
> interesting things like looking at migration from HSQLDB, implementing
> tests and otherwise polishing things.
>
> I'll be blogging about my progress: you can either see all my LO related
> posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/libreoffice ] or just my GSOC 2013
> posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/gsoc2013/ ] (the latter link isn't
> up yet). I'll probably also be keeping the mailing-list updated with my
> day to progress. (My IRC nick is ahunt.) If desired I can also post my
> GSOC proposal/timeplan here/on the wiki.
>
> (During the course of the summer I'll probably also be working on the
> Firefox OS port of the Impress Remote I implemented last year, which
> will be independent of the GSOC work I'm doing.)
>
> Some less exciting background information: I'm currently in the leadup
> to my exams which take place next week (I'll probably be internet-free
> that week), after that I'll be free to start full-time hacking on
> LibreOffice for the summer, although I'll try and get some work done on
> getting Firebird building in LO this week. I'm currently in the second
> year of Engineering at Cambridge University, and will probably
> specialise in Electrical/Information Engineering from next year onwards.
> I'll be based in Cambridge and in Switzerland during the course of the
> summer.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>         Andrzej
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