Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-23 Thread Sean White
Thanks for that link, it was a real help. I can't say I'm pleased, but the decision has been made and I will not go against the steering community. Something I did note was that a-lot of the points we have raised match theirs concept-for-concept if not word-for-word. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-23 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:24:00 +1100, Sean White runicpala...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things i LOVE about open source software is the ability for me to ask someone else to code something or port something that i cant do myself. So my solution to your problem of incompatible extensions is to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Sean White
One of the things i LOVE about open source software is the ability for me to ask someone else to code something or port something that i cant do myself. So my solution to your problem of incompatible extensions is to set up a new mailing list for OO to LO extension porting. the public can send

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Sean White
because the underlining code inst changing overly-much, most of the extensions should be easy to port and in th odd case where an extension is truely broken by LO's remakes then we can rewrite the plugin from scratch. As a side not we will probably need a page on the document foundation site that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Florian Reisinger, *, This mail arrived completely screwed up! I'm sure no one made the effort to read it. Florian Reisinger schrieb: [.. screwed content ..] Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images (german version already

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/22/2010 11:24 AM, Sean White wrote: One of the things i LOVE about open source software is the ability for me to ask someone else to code something or port something that i cant do myself. Have you looked at the percentage of extensions for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert Derman
jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2010 09:15 PM, James Wilde wrote: ...and? Is LibO going to upgrade the version number every time OOo does? And only then? Unless there is a compatibility tag for extensions, the way that there is for firefox,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, I've tried to fix the mail from Florian Resinger: Btw, Florian, which email client do you use? Your email was horrible to read I've had a hard time figuring out, who said what after your mail. Sigrid Am Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:25:11 +0100 schrieb Florian Reisinger reisi...@live.at: Claus

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-21 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2010 09:15 PM, James Wilde wrote: ...and? Is LibO going to upgrade the version number every time OOo does? And only then? Unless there is a compatibility tag for extensions, the way that there is for firefox, LibO is stuck with the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-21 Thread James Wilde
On Nov 21, 2010, at 22:31 , jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2010 09:15 PM, James Wilde wrote: ...and? Is LibO going to upgrade the version number every time OOo does? And only then? Unless there is a compatibility tag for extensions, the way

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-21 Thread shundr...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, James Wilde wilde.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I appreciate that it would mean two sets of numbers for extensions, but I can imagine that, in a not too distant future, OOo and LibO are going to grow apart, possibly sufficiently that an extension for the one

[tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-19 Thread Sean White
As a concerned user, if LibreOffice is meant a independent office project derived from the OpenOffice code then why do we still use their version numbering system. Wouldn't it be better to start from 1 to reinforce in peoples minds that we are a separate project. -- Sean White, Concerned User

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Derman
Sean White wrote: As a concerned user, if LibreOffice is meant a independent office project derived from the OpenOffice code then why do we still use their version numbering system. Wouldn't it be better to start from 1 to reinforce in peoples minds that we are a separate project. I couldn't