These scripts are part of the netbeans + openoffice integration and
they don't work --> they have a bug. At the least, there needs to be
installation instructions that cover the editing of the scripts.

My editing of the scripts is a therefore a work-around to get someone
else's software working.

On 27/11/2007, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 8:31 PM, Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, Netbeans is providing an environment with its own path
> > $PATH = /usr/lib/openoffice/program
> > which is causing the openoffice addin to fail.  I've reported this as
> > a bug to the openoffice addin writers.
>
> Why do you consider this to be a bug?
> Many people would classify this behaviour as a security setting:
> making the script author explicitly set PATH or specify the full path
> of external objects is good practice that helps to prevent accidental
> invocation of commands that may have "too much" access to the internal
> program state
>
> jim
>

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