Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Marco Fioretti wrote:
>
> > [snip: OpenDocument and freedom] This loses
> > a *lot* of relevance if there is no defined path to standardize
> > macros and spreadsheet formulas, and the will to follow
> it.
>
> Well, there is a defined path for spreadsheet formulas. As for
> macros,
> the issue is more tricky because a macro is a program that tells
> the application to do something.
Well, not exactly, if I have understood it correctly.
A macro is a small program written in some _language_. It is NOT
the code _and_ its interpreter. The latter, yes, is definitely not
portable. This is what I'm thinking about:
1) Python interface for opendocument, ie set of function definitions
that read/write odt files and their elements
2) different *implementations* of those functions for KOffice, OO.o,
anything else. Just like there is *one* Python language, but
different binary interpreters for it on Linux, Windows etc...
3) Then, you and I write a macro in "Python calling the library
defined in 1) above" on whatever platform and once...
4) that Python _code_ is zipped with everything else in the .odt
file, just like StarBasic code in .sxw files today...
5) we can then send the .odt file to anybody with:
any .odt program (OO.o, KOffice...) + Python + his own
specific implementation of 1) above...
6) and he will be able to run the macro, happily ignoring with
which combination of .odt-program and operating system it was
created.
I have written Python above because it is already useable *today*,
or so I understand, both in OO.o *and* KOffice, or in any case much
more common in computing than StarBasic, so I'm seriously starting
to think that it is a much better choice to solve this problem.
Any feedback on the flow above, from suggestions on how to implement
it to (polite, please! ) strong criticism is welcome.
Before I forget: if this does make sense, why not add it to the
list of "google summer of code" OO.o projects? Just in case
somebody felt like doing it?
Ciao,
Marco
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