Tobias Krais wrote:
Hi Juergen,
That would mean this functionality is close to be published!?
no, as i mentioned before it is intended for private usage ;-) I am not
sure if it will be published. I don't see really demand for it. for
what exactly do you need it where you can't use the extensions manager
or unopkg directly?
All our clients with an Windows XP system have admin access. They will
install a new OpenOffice version as soon as OpenOffice tells them about
the new version. Thus the path to the Extension Manager changes and is
out of my scope.
Currently we use a little batch file installing the extension or
updating it with the extension manager. But the paths in the batch file
are hard coded.
i understand that, but maybe you have the chance to figure out where the
office gets installed. Calling unopkg should be sufficient enough.
We would prefer the solution of checking (updating or installing) an
extension from within Java, because we start OpenOffice from a little
Java programm. Thus we can check whether the correct Extension version
is installed and install a different if necessary.
ok, sounds like a valid use case.
And there is an other reason. Our clients use OpenOffice on different
platforms. The paths on these platforms are different. Using the API to
manage packages is the only platform independent solution.
For us, publishing the api would be very useful.
i understand that and i agree that it would make sense in this case. But
the whole extension feature (the whole infra structure) is under
development and wouldn't publish the API at the moment. We can discuss
this later (in a year or so) when we have reached a more final state.
You have probably to work around this problem and you can't count on a
fast stable API solution.
Sorry, but i really don't see any chance to publish the API soon, we
have learned from our mistakes in the past ;-)
Juergen
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