Hi!
Bernd Eilers írta:
Hi there!
Szalai Kálmán wrote:
OxygenOffice Professional 2.0.4 is ready for Download!
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OxygenOffice Professional is based on OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. This
latest and greatest version has new functions like enhanced PDF
management and direct export to LaTex. The OxygenOffice Professional
team of internatioanl developers changed the name of the project ,
(which was formerly known as OpenOffice.org Premium), to simplify
things and point out that this project is independent from the
OpenOffice.org project. Our team loves and supports the
OpenOffice.org project, and did not want to cause any potential
confusion.
Well I must admit I do not much about the history of OxygenOffice
Professional and it´s team and do not know what the current plans for
the future of OxygenOffice are.
But what I am asking myself is if it´s really necessary to maintain a
fork for the features offered in OxygenOffice Professional as it seems
to me it must be quite a lot of work to keep a fork in sync with the
changes emerging in OpenOffice.org in upcoming releases.
Not tu much effort but limited resources...
OpenOffice.org does now have a new extension mechanism
(http://extensions.openoffice.org/)
and from the description of OxygenOffice Professional I see a lot of
things like template packages, gallery themes, export filters etc.
that would be good topics for OpenOffice.org extensions.
Yes, I know. Check for first steps on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop... I created a small extension
group for my extension sandbox :o) here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170021&package_id=208656
So I will create packages, and might I will leave the world of binary
installers. But I woul be more happy if some of our work gets upstreamed...
Thus I am asking the OxygenOffice Professional team what they would
think of the following possibilities to enhance their current
development model:
Provide a set of extensions to OpenOffice.org for features currently
offered in OxygenOffice ( especially things like template packs,
gallery themes etc., maybe special localisation features OxygenOffice
Professional might have etc. )
This is a very new feature isn't it? OOOP project has releases since 2.0
(external installer later integrated into installer)...
Either drop OxygenOffice professional fork and move to an extension
providing model only and for changes that can not be offered as
extension (like maybe there are some special internationalisation
features in it that required code changes to base libraries etc. ) try
to contribute those back to OpenOffice.org directly or keep those in
the OxygenOffice Professional fork but make whatever else can be
converted to an extension also available as an extension to provide
those things to users of OpenOffice.org and thus a wider range of
users also.
Fo example I con not see how can I make localized galleries... Can you
help me? How can I install extension automatically with the original
installer? How can I update extensions automatically? I didn't found in
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Non-code_extensions ...
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Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
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