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Hmmmm. First I'm generally pleased with OO. Good feature set. Nothing
I have cared about was ever broken. However a monolithic architecture
seems like a poor choice for an open source project. I don't know
anything about the organization of the OO team but I would assume that
people join because they are interested in some facet of the project.
They contribute to and test the element(s) that are associated with
that facet. As features are added testing becomes more complex who is
prepared to test the whole thing.
There are two potential areas of risk. The unfortunate error that
brakes something subtle. Something that is not part of the test suite
something that doesn't get added to the test suite because of the
complexity of the entire package and so it goes un-noticed possibly
messing up someone's important spreadsheet. The other error is one
done by some SOB who deliberately codes backdoors that share people's
databases with him or just maliciously and destructively impacts
peoples work.
The ability to test a whole bunch of little pieces, decompose the
system into only the pieces you want or need, does a lot to minimize
both the errors (because the builder had more control over their
piece) as well as the ability of users to simply delete pieces they
don't want or need thus avoiding either type of error coming from
pieces they don't want or need.
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On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
I just tested and your 100% right.
2008/10/20 Matt Sturgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
does that meen if i was to delete OpenOffice.exe and then run
OpenOfficeWriter.exe, it would not work?
OpenOffice.org is one big program. However,
there are some tiny little Writer, Calc, etc., programs that do
nothing but
call the big program with a request to start a word-processing
document, a
spreadsheet, etc..
Has OO always followed this architecture?
Yes, even back in the days that it was called "StarOffice", came
from a
small company in Germany, and was most famous for being the top
office suite
for OS/2.
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St. Doug, Tigger and Puppy in our memory.
Tir na nOg
Wilton, NH USA
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