On 22.10.2013 22:33, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Herbert Dürr wrote:
[1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=85356
[2] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=63270
[3] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=91079
This is an interesting reality check and I'm afraid the project lost
users that depended on that functionality long ago. On the other hand
these facts enable us to kick this non-functioning and unmaintainable
crap out without a serious negative impact.
Count me among those who are very happy to see a large, unmaintained,
outdated, problematic part of our codebase being removed, and thanks for
doing so!
But we need to be quite clear in telling users what we will drop by
extending the "Mozilla removal" from the initial idea of replacing just
the crypto support to this idea of dropping the Address Book
functionality too.
The above issues show that functionality had been (and still is)
crippled, but not that it is 100% broken. Would it be possible to
extract some short bullet points, or use cases, of what is lost by
dropping Mozilla at this stage? We could put it early in the draft
Release Notes and give proper notice to the (hopefully few) users who
may still depend on it.
I'd say there are two noteworthy cases:
- Windows XP users will have the same experience as Windows Vista,
Windows 7 and Windows 8 users now already have with AOO: trying to add
the Windows Address Book as an AOO database won't work
- Thunderbird users will not see direct TB address book support in AOO's
address book wizard, but AOO's support for Csv-Text can replace it for
now. They can get use TB's Tool->Export->AsCsv functionality to get
their address book as comma separated text.
Another interesting question is the LDAP support:
The AOO codebase already seems to have support for mozilla-less openldap
which could be enabled using --with-openldap but AFAIK that hasn't been
used in mainstream OOo or AOO yet. So bugzilla cannot help to assess its
status. It might be possible that it is much better than the
seamonkey-ldap, especially when access control is enable which is
probably the default in professional environments, as the non-anonymous
bin to LDAP fails with the seamonkey version. I'd like to invite
volunteer help for this question. Especially current power users of
AOO's address book functionality via LDAP are encouraged to try the
--with-openldap option on their favorite platform.
Herbert
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