On 2/12/13 2:15 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:07:59 +0100 > Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2/12/13 1:42 PM, Joost Andrae wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> in the moment I have just one question in mind: >>> >>> Who's going to adapt the Sun/Oracle extensions that contain Addons.xcu >>> like presentation-minimizer.oxt ? >> >> well the extensions where we have the source code can be changed by >> volunteers. Maybe directly at Apache or as Google code project when >> there are license incompatible dependencies. >> >> Everything else is unclear and I doubt that Oracle has interest in >> updating them. And nobody else can do that. >> >> The best thing would be to start new projects providing similar >> functionality but where the code is available and under a proper license. >> >> Unmaintained extensions are a general problem and should not have >> influence on any decision. > > There are already reports on incompatabilities with LibO 4.0 and some > existing extensions. > > One thread, for example, at > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=59595 > > Might there be possibility for a shim to be written to sit between Addons.xcu > and AOO 4.0?
I don't know, I haven't looked into it but I know that they have changed API's more radical. No surprise for me. Juergen
