On 19/07/12 11:09, Fridrich Strba wrote: > On 12/07/12 17:55, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> and/or re-write to avoid big chunk of mozilla bundled > > Mozilla is also used for Outlook Express (WAB) address-book and for > Outlook address-book via MAPI. For windows, there is a (deprecated) API > to access Windows Address Book using wab32.dll. The MAPI API is also > present on windows, so to make 2 distinct address-book drivers for > Windows might be reasonably feasible. For mozilla/thunderbird > addressbook, there seems to be a solution that does not require the > whole beast and thus no xpcom eating CPU time. > > For Linux, there is libpst that is able to read outlook contacts and > somehow old libwab that knows how the WAB format looks. They are > GPL-licensed thus, so not directly usable. on my Linux master build with --enable-mozilla i've got the following address books: - LDAP Address Book - Seamonkey Address Book - Thunderbird/Icedove Address Book so apparently Outlook [Express] is not a currently supported feature on non-Windows platforms, and if we offer it only on Windows in the future it's not a regression. i personally don't think supporting it on non-Windows platforms is all that useful, because i assume that people only use these Address Book drivers on a live address book that they actively maintain in their mail client; generally Linux/Mac users don't use Outlook as a mail client because of its limited platform support. thus it should be acceptable to let Linux/Mac users use their Outlook [Express] address books by first importing them into e.g. Thunderbird on Linux (possibly indirectly by first importing into Thunderbird on Windows), and then accessing that via the newfangled Mork driver; they would have to import it into a Linux mail client anyway if they want to use it to send mails. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
