2012.05.27. 18:51 keltezéssel, Ariel Constenla-Haile írta:
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 26/05/12 01:59, drew a écrit :
Hi Drew,
I believe you missed an earlier decision by the group - that extension
is no longer supported. No reason really to open a bug report.
No, I didn't ;-) but hell, I thought that seeing as it is still being
provided for download on the AOOo extensions site and that nothing on
there in relation to it says that it will probably no longer work, there
is an expectation by people who previously used OOo and then upgrade to
AOOo that the connector will continue to function.
It looks like the owner of the account that uploaded that extensions is
Oracle http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector
so changing this is beyond the Apache OpenOffice Project, in Ccing
ooo-dev so that Andrew Rist, from Oracle, gets informed about this
issue.
In other words :
- if it is supposed to work, then the project should attempt to ensure
that it continues to work ;
If the bug is on the extension itself, AOO developers could fix the C++
code that was granted by Oracle to the ASF, but we cannot build it nor
relase it: the extension relies on LGPL (the C++ connector) and GPL (the
C connector) components.
- if it is not supposed to work, then the project should either put up,
as a minimum, the fact that it is no longer supported on the extensions
website, or else pull the extension completely - obviously, pulling the
extension would upset those who still may have a use for OOo 3.2.1 or
3.3.0 (myself included).
So I suppose, ultimately, the problem is one of communication by the
AOOo project to the broader slice of the unwitting population less
knowledgable about the decisions made earlier on in the year.
It seems people *do* still download that extension:
Downloads: Today: 100 | Week: 1,612 | Month: 5,404 | Year: 230,495
I think that a good solution would be to upload a new version with the
description.xml modified to include a MAXIMAL version:
<dependencies>
<OpenOffice.org-minimal-version value="3.1" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.1"/>
<OpenOffice.org-maximal-version value="3.3" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.3"/>
</dependencies>
This will make the extension impossible to be installed in AOO>= 3.4
This will not good move, the connector or AOO 3.4 has some problems,
only in Mac versions.
The extension works correctly at least for me, in windows and linux
versions.
Zoltan
Regards
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