Make a LibreOffice connectivity/sdbc driver that does not use the in-tree ancient Mozilla copy. http://forums.devx.com/archive/index.php/t-66624.html says one can do that through the Windows Address Book (WAB) API. It seems to be deprecated (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms629361%28v=VS.85%29.aspx ). The replacement is Windows Contacts API http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms735779%28v=vs.85%29.aspx that's a venue to explore, too. We need to pay attention that Windows Contacts API is available on as old Windows as we want to support. This needs handling the SQL ourselves, like our mork driver does (connectivity/source/drivers/mork)
In order to limit the confusion between ProposedEasyHack and EasyHack and to make queries much easier we are changing ProposedEasyHack to NeedsDevEval. Thank you and apologies for the noise
A great easy-hack, though not entirely trivial for sure :-)
Adding self to CC if not already on
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (easyHack, difficultyInteresting, skillCpp, skillSql) [NinjaEdit]
JanI is default CC for Easy Hacks (Add Jan; remove LibreOffice Dev List from CC) [NinjaEdit]
All information seems to have moved to 56902. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56902 ***
(In reply to jan iversen from comment #6) > All information seems to have moved to 56902. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56902 *** But now, the information is kind of lost at the tracking bug 56902 that one of the three things which that bug blocks on is implementing a "Moz-free Outlook Express Address Book driver".