Uwe Altmann schrieb: > Hi > > Am 12.07.11 20:38, schrieb drew: >> hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain >> enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a >> requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that >> we can share extensions today is, IMO, a remnant of a past history and >> should not dictate decisions for going forward - so I would not be in >> favor our hosting Apache OpenOffice.org branded extensions on a >> TDF/LibreOffice service, nor would I be in favor or seeing >> TDF/Libreoffice continue to point back to Apache OpenOffice.org for any >> future end user services. > > As in past some extensions required some special version of OOo, in > future they may require a special version of LO or only LO or only AOOo > at all. It's more testing but surely can be documented and handeled. > Besides that I dont't expect LO to refurbish the API on a > down-to-the-foundation level in the next years.
There is a solution for that Problem: standardization of the API for example under the roof of OASIS. That doesn't necessarily mean, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org will have the same API but a practical common set. Extensions could notice, whether they use only (parts of) the standard set. Regards Michael -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
