Olivier Hallot schrieb: > > > Em 13-07-2011 05:33, RA Stehmann escreveu: >> 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 >> >> >> > Isn't this going to put the API into a cast? (for the good and for the bad) > Regards > No, it isn't. You can improve standards (like ODF). LibreOffice for example could develop new API elements especially for new features, which could be intergrated in a later version of the API standard.
The standard should be only a practical set, supported by LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and others. But that doesn't mean the standard describes the whole API of one of these products but only a great part. So there is room for improvement. 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
