Thanks for the response.

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Lohmaier
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 3:18 AM
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> You should know, that he talks about the Mac-port. And on 
> Mac, there's only one "Application", only one Icon to click 
> on to launch OOo So the Mac-user will always start OOo 
> Writer. And from within Writer he can open the other apps.
> 
> The only way to launch calc directly on Mac, is to use a calc 
> document template to click on, or to create a custom launcher 
> (the last solution is nothing that could be done by the 
> "regular mac user")
> 
> So I'm pretty sure Shaun did mean that, and not really 
> splitting up the apps.

Clear.

> 
> > Are there any plans to move away from our current monolitic binary?
> 
> Well, OOo isn't monolithic - and I don't think there are any 
> new plans regarding "splitting it up in separate 
> applications". I guess more effort will be put in 
> restructuring the parts in a more clever way, so that not all 
> features are loaded at once, but when they are needed.
> Making them truly separate would be a bad idea. 

Why so? Separating apps would allow to isolate crash in one app, one
busy process would not block other apps and utilising multiple
processors/cores would be so much easier with separate processes. 
Code reuse could be done via dlls, right?

WBR,
KP.

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