[Slackbuilds-users] openjdk was: Re: Updates - 20170225.1

[Tim Dickson]

On 27/02/2017 11:05, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 27/02/17 11:53, Tim Dickson wrote:
>> without java support macro's (and accessibility functions) don't work,
>> as macros are based on the java types exposed to libre basic/python etc.
>
> I think Base is useless without Java.
> I can't confirm, because the last time I used database in office suite 
> was in primary school.
>
yes, I didn't mention that, but it is pretty hard to write a usable 
visual database interface without programming, and all programming in 
libreoffice base requires java support.