Hi Bernard, > I don't want to start a troll, but the service > com.sun.star.sheet.Spreadsheet is _unpublished_ since a long time, see > <http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sheet/Spreadsheet.html>
Hmm, okay, and what does this tell us? The concept of unpublished was introduced for cases such as the Childs/Children: The interface has a flaw, which can be fixed easily, and does not require substantial effort for the clients if fixed. I much prefer doing this small innocent fix for the next release, at the cost of some scripts to be adjusted, over being annoying by the current spelling error for the next *years* (finally, it looks somewhat unprofessional, doesn't it?). Yes, we don't have a mechanism in place which ensures that APIs become published after a while, which leads to APIs such as the one you mentioned. On the other hand, I doubt that anybody will do a severe incompatible change to Spreadsheet or Shape, I think people are responsible enough to recognize that this would be a bad idea, after the API has been there for years. On yet another hand, I personally would not like to declare any service as published as long as this forbids even minor and innocent changes which do not cause any trouble to any client, but that's another story which I perhaps should not start again, here :-\ Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
