Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > On 26/04/2005, at 09:22, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> I have an Add-On component installed in my OOo user profile for several >> years now. I installed a lot of new versions (forwards and backwards in >> version history) since then and it still works like a charm. > > You are talking about a *single user* scenario here, I was writing > about *multiple* users. > > Do you really want to force me to learn yet another command line tool > in order to install add-ons on my multiple users (or upgrade them all)?
No, I'm just saying that your scenario is not an argument against the OOo Add-on installer. I want to force nobody to anything. > Can your add-on tool even do that, or am I forced to install them one > by one for each user? Of course it can. You really should try to get information about things you complain about. But IIRC I already said that to someone else and "repetitio non placet". For the same reason I don't answer your other questions here because I already did it in some other mails in this thread. Please find the answers there. > Why have us give support to problems that can be avoided very simply? The pity is that avoiding is *not* "very simple", and the blame here is on the Linux distributors side. As I already wrote repeatedly: the culprit is that there is no common installer for all relevant Linux distros. All we can do is offer an installation mechanism that fulfills the technical needs for a centralized installation (IMHO we have it, but if not, please tell us where technical problems are; of course that might need that you start understanding it ;-)) and leave it up to the distributors to integrate it into their system. I'm still not sure how this can scale if OOo Add-Ons really become a success like the Firefox extensions, but again: the blame is on the Linux distributors side. They can't expect that every developer can support any particular Linux package format on this planet. It only *looks* simple, and it only looks simple if you're all bound up with yourself. I don't mean this in an offensive way, I'm also susceptible for this from time to time, but I have learned to become hard on myself. More than 10 years of platform independent development can teach you a lot. :-) Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
