Hi,
Alexander G.von Below wrote:
And, to enter into the discussion with a possibly stoopide question: While Mozilla is a good browser, wouldn't is be a better idea to leverage the OS X WebKit?
OpenOffice.org does not use mozilla for browsing. It uses various pieces from mozilla, that don't have a direct relationship to the Web:
- The nss library provides security and cryptography functionality for our digital signature features.
- The ldap library is used for reading some settings from an LDAP directory. It also is used indirectly for the addressbook.
- The mozilla addressbook pieces can be used as addressbook (for mail merge, etc.), by mapping it as a datasource for our database component. Mozilla supports several different addressbook backends (own AB file, LDAP, MS Outlook), which we can all use this way.
The first two libraries are rather well isolated and could be broken out of the big mozilla package as standalone libraries. They don't depend on much from the mozilla framework.
The addressbook part is a different beast. It requires bigger pieces of mozilla. But AFAIK on OSX there exists an Apple-defined standard address book interface. Ultimately a proper Mac port should provide a conduit to this. When that is in place it could be reevaluated whether having the mozilla pieces in there is necessary as well.
(Right now, Mozilla complains that it can not find gtk+ version 2 or higher... seems I will have to install that as well)
As we don't really anything from the mozilla GUI, it might be possible to configure a reduced build of the mozilla sources that doesn't have these dependencies. But I don't know, if this is isolated well enough in the address book parts. I guess someone who know the mozilla architecture and build system rather well would have to figure that out. So this is rather unlikely to happen quicky :-(
Ciao, Joerg
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