Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 18:29 -0500, Rod Engelsman a écrit :
Having said that, though, I disagree with the characterization that this
would be creating this whole thing from scratch. One of the beauties of
OOo is the code reuse, and a whole lot of the pieces to a PIM already
exist in the form of useful APIs, particularly if the thing is built
around HSQLDB.
However, there are many forms of "code reuse".
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The kind of code re-use I was referring to was the way OOo uses the same
code to edit text whether in Writer, Calc, Impress, or Draw text boxes.
As Jonathon quite correctly pointed out, aside from the email, a PIM is
really just a collection of database tables with a particular kind of
interface on top.
All I'm saying is that a lot of the pieces for this thing already exist
in the OOo code base. In fact, you could prototype a fair amount of this
thing right now just using macros. Heck, OOo even already has half of an
email client; it can send emails directly without calling an external
MUA for email-merge. So it wouldn't be trivial, but it wouldn't be
anything like starting completely from scratch to create an application.
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Rod
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