On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:08 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > Via Simon Phipps on Twitter: > > "We're rewriting the LibreOffice wizards in Python > > because we can no longer be sure Java will be there" > > -- Michael Meeks, #FOSDEM > > Hopefully then Python will replace Basic too. And maybe there might even > be some documentation for LO/Python some day.
JFYI due to the joys of twitter - this is rather an horrible mis-quote due to truncation. I can't remember exactly what I said, the video will show as/when published but something like: "we can no longer be sure Java will be there on Windows". ie. having our UI bomb out with horrible dialogs suggesting people download a JRE to make File->Wizards work is really not ideal; especially since we bundle a (tiny) python run-time already. Java is still a really great way to write cross-platform extensions for LibreOffice, and we still ship a load of java enablement pieces: they just require a working JRE to be on the system (nothing new there). HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted