[Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

[Alister Hood]

Hi,

> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:14:29 +0200
> From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>
> To: Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal"
> 	people?
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> 
> Selon Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault
> > <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> > > Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a ?crit :
> > >> Hi Even,
> > >>
> > >> can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the
> > >> only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and
> if
> > >> not, can it benefit from your recent additions?
> > >>
> > >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html
> > >> http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > The MDB driver (with Jackcess library) indeed already supports normal
> MDB
> > > files. But it is a bit of a pain to use (needs linking GDAL with a JVM
> and
> > the
> > > Jackess .jar), so the latest improvement to the ODBC driver should
> make it
> > > easier.
> >
> > But your improvements are only supported in windows, right?
> 
> Yes. But there would be no problems to make it work on Linux too, like it
> is
> done in the PGeo driver, but personnaly I don't see the interest in doing
> so,
> since in my experience, MDBTools, the Unix MDB ODBC driver, under Linux
> (particularly 64bit) is too broken to be usefull

Does this apply for the new 0.7 version of mdbtools?  It seems to have a low profile because it is on github instead of sourceforge...
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29472144

Alister