Malte Timmermann wrote: > > Thorsten Behrens wrote, On 03/03/08 17:21: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:08:16PM +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: >>>>> what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? >>>> Unfavorable. >>>> (this is a personal opinion) >>> If -and only if- this question is framed in that way, I am also >>> unfavorable. AFAICT java is not required for OOo to run. >>> >> Yep. The party line up to now was to have Java used for >> non-essential, non-core features. > > Yes. That's the way it works nowadays, and we shouldn't change that. > > Requiring Java for an OOo core feature like ODF 1.2 Meta Data support is > a no-no, IMHO.
I don't consider Meta Data to be a core feature of OOo of OOo3.0. OOo itself does not work with meta data, this is only a platform for plugins. So Michaels questions was a little bit misleading. We don't ask for requiring Java 1.5 for OOo, we just wonder whether using a Java library to implement meta data support is better than perhaps having no meta data support in 3.0 at all. Even without Java there would be no function loss compared to the current office. Consider the hsqldb content in OOo Base: you can load the odb file, but you can't work with the embedded data. The same is true for odf files with meta data: you can open them and work with the document, but not with the embedded meta data. In case anyone came up with a useful, professional and maintained alternative that is guaranteed to run at least on the four main platforms we could have a look on it. Without that I'd prefer to utilize Sesame. Of course somebody else could implement the stuff also. ;-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
