[Bug 787688] Re: knoda rejected and kexi heavily bugged

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 11 June 2011 10:08, robert leleu <robert.jean.leleu at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Je la 02/06/2011 22:31-------- Origina mesaĝo-------- Jaroslaw Staniek
> skribis (esperanto estas la unua internacia lingvo):
>> On 2 June 2011 22:04, falcaf<787688 at bugs.launchpad.net>  wrote:
>>> Bonsoir,
>>>
>>> I have the same problem ; I've tried kexi but without good result (unable to import my mysql base.
>>> Knoda work ; isn't possible to get it again in ubuntu ?
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, one of the requirements is that the application
>> has to be maintained...
>>
> Not being programmer I am not sure of the meaning of "maintained". Is it
> to prepare the relevant files to be included in a PPA ?
>
> At the time being I'm aware of a debian whose address is
> http://mirror.network.kz/ubuntu/pool/universe/h/hk-classes/libhk-classes15ldbl_0.8.3-7build1_i386.deb
>
> and I hope this is a basis for someone to "maintain" Knoda in Ubuntu, at
> less as long as Kexi doesn't work properly.

I have no notes regarding quality of knoda deployment. By maintenance
I mean the software of course not the deployment. The most recent
version of KNoda is 0.8.3 which appears to be released around December
2006 and is for KDE 3. As someone who values FOSS competition I am
rather sorry about this fact.
Please also look at the comments at [1].

Lack of update for knoda is of course no excuse for Kexi's own issues
on Ubuntu and I am
looking forward to see opportunities to cooperate more closely with
the Ubuntu team.
To be more constructive: If someone is interested in preparing Kexi
3.0 deployment in advance before Calligra 3.0 alpha is announced, we
have regular Calligra source code snapshots [2], and these include
Kexi. Updates notes for deployment are always available at
https://projects.kde.org/projects/calligra/repository/revisions/master/entry/README.PACKAGERS

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.hk-classes.general/317
[2] 1st snapshot:
http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-announces-first-snapshot-release/

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regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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 Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)