On 22 October 2013 16:15, Herbert Dürr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > On 22.10.2013 14:22, Herbert Dürr wrote: > >> On 22.10.2013 13:46, janI wrote: >> >>> On 22 October 2013 13:30, Herbert Dürr <h...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> Since issue 91209 the mozilla address books were disabled on Mac >>>> altogether anyway, so on Mac we could rid AOO of its heavy Seamonkey >>>> dependency really soon without removing any features by using NSS >>>> instead >>>> of bundling a large set of Seamonkey libraries. >>>> >>>> On the other platforms a very high percentage of our user base wouldn't >>>> notice any missing features if the Mozilla address book support was >>>> removed >>>> there too. >>>> >>>> I have no problem with that, since it makes our product lighter and >>> simpler. But for this I think we need user opinions. >>> >> >> Yes, whether we build our next release with the --enable-mozab-module >> option or without it is open for discussion. Now if there were >> volunteers that implemented extensions for mapping mork/ldap/wab address >> books to AOO's SDBC API then the whole mozab module would be superfluous >> anyway and the discussion would have only one reasonable result. >> > > A small status update regarding the state of the existing mozilla address > book integration: Non-anonymous LDAP address books was out of order [1] > since 2008, the windows address book didn't work since 2006 if it contained > any distribution list [2] and was broken on all now supported Microsoft > operating systems [3] since at least 2008. > > [1] > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=85356<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=85356> > [2] > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=63270<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=63270> > [3] > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=91079<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=91079> > > This is an interesting reality check and I'm afraid the project lost users > that depended on that functionality long ago. On the other hand these facts > enable us to kick this non-functioning and unmaintainable crap out without > a serious negative impact. > I dont hope we have too many more "surprises" like that.
> > With these new insights I suggest to remove both the enable-mozilla and > its eventual replacement enable-mozab-module before losing much more time > on that topic. The sooner the better. > +1. rgds jan I. > > Herbert > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
