[AccessD] LibreOffice Base

[John Colby]

Great find Arthur.  LibreOffice is what I have on all of my systems now.  I
don't even have MS Office installed anywhere any more.

That said I am actively pursuing Python as my language of choice.  In most
cases I will use

SQLite <https://www.sqlite.org/index.html>

I am really enjoying python.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:50 AM jack drawbridge <jackandpat.d at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
>
> I'm not a Linux user nor familiar with LibreOffice Base. But I do like your
> enthusiasm and will look into some tutorials. Glad to see you're still
> active and up to your eyeballs into a project - as usual. Good  luck with
> your project and volunteering.
> Jack
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:18 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone actively using Base? A couple of months ago, I converted my
> main
> > box to Linux Mint and installed LibreOffice. I decided to take a look at
> > LibreOffice Base, which I haven't done for years, and was shocked to see
> > how far it's come since I last looked at it. It's everything Access is,
> and
> > more.
> > 1. It's free.
> > 2. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
> > 3. It's fully integrated with the other LibreOffice apps.
> > 4. It supports many back ends, including Access, MySQL/MariaDB,
> PostgreSQL
> > and others.
> > 5. Its programming language is everything VBA is, with a few exras such
> as
> > classes.
> >
> > I was astounded. I'm currently developing an app for organisations that
> > rely heavily on volunteers. The prototype was written in Access, but
> having
> > read the Base docs, I decided to curtail the Access version and complete
> > the project in Base, primarily because of the ability to deploy to
> multiple
> > platforms, but also because it's free, which matters significantly to
> > volunteer-based organisations. Also, when it's done, I plan to make my
> app
> > free as well.
> > I'll follow this message up as the project progresses.
> >
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