On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:07:59 +0100 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/13 1:42 PM, Joost Andrae wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in the moment I have just one question in mind: > > > > Who's going to adapt the Sun/Oracle extensions that contain Addons.xcu > > like presentation-minimizer.oxt ? > > well the extensions where we have the source code can be changed by > volunteers. Maybe directly at Apache or as Google code project when > there are license incompatible dependencies. > > Everything else is unclear and I doubt that Oracle has interest in > updating them. And nobody else can do that. > > The best thing would be to start new projects providing similar > functionality but where the code is available and under a proper license. > > Unmaintained extensions are a general problem and should not have > influence on any decision. There are already reports on incompatabilities with LibO 4.0 and some existing extensions. One thread, for example, at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=59595 Might there be possibility for a shim to be written to sit between Addons.xcu and AOO 4.0? -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
