MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org 1.0 - what about old versions of MySQL?

[Clemens Molinari]

Hi,

I just installed the connector and tried to connect to my local host,
but it didn't work - I had not noticed that the connector needs MySQL
5.1, and mine is 3.23.

Normally I wouldn't care and just update, but there is a reason why I
write this mail.

Here in Germany we have an extremely popular opensource business
application named "CAO-Faktura". It only uses MySQL <5 and does not work
with 5.x, and because of the new licensing policy many people would like
to continue with their old MySQL versions. Many, many small to medium
companies use CAO and would love to use an elegant connector for
mailmerge, reporting etc.

Is there a way to make the connector work with old MySQL versions?

Regards
Clemens

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[Georg Richter-3]

Clemens Molinari wrote:

Hi,


> Here in Germany we have an extremely popular opensource business
> application named "CAO-Faktura". It only uses MySQL <5 and does not work
> with 5.x, and because of the new licensing policy many people would like
> to continue with their old MySQL versions. Many, many small to medium
> companies use CAO and would love to use an elegant connector for
> mailmerge, reporting etc.

According to http://www.cao-faktura.de/content/view/24/42/ the free
version is under GPL, like MySQL is - so there shouldn't be a problem
using an actual MySQL verison. Likely they have a close sourced version
and prefer not pay for OEM licenses.

MySQL 3.23 is too old and not supported anymore - it lacks of several
features like character set support, prepared statements etc. which are
essential for OpenOffice Base.

/Georg
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