On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 11/02/2013 Hagar Delest wrote: >> >> No real problem with reinstalling extensions after a major upgrade, I've >> done that too. >> But there is a difference between the mere inconvenience of reinstalling >> extensions and losing them completely (waiting that someone dare update >> them). > > > The real issue is here indeed. Reinstalling won't be perceived as a big > problem. But the fact that reinstalling the same extension won't work will > be a problem. > > Most of the extensions hosted on extensions.openoffice.org won't be updated, > and extensions.openoffice.org does not support filtering by version (and > anyway the information would be missing in current releases). The top five > extensions at > http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/most_popular > total 1 million downloads per year, which could give some backing to the > nightmare support scenario Hagar envisions. >
So you are assuming that the authors of the top extensions will not update their extensions? Is that a reasonable assumption? Why wouldn't they update? I agree that if we accepted that assumption then this looks like a bad change. But I do wonder about the validity of that assumption. -Rob > Ariel posted to the API list saying that the two reasonable options in his > opinion are either to keep or revert his entire change (Hagar, please note > that Ariel asked not to start a discussion here and now, and mentioned he > cannot be responsive at the moment; anyway...). But if there is a way, even > using redundant code, to still support the old and new toolbar handling this > would be very useful to end-users. From the FOSDEM talks I understood there > could the possibility to still support both mechanisms (and of course, warn > users when the "deprecated" one is used). > > Regards, > Andrea.
