On 10/4/2017 4:43 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  4 Oct, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
>> On 10/4/2017 3:03 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
>>> On  4 Oct, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>>> Am 04.10.2017 um 18:27 schrieb Keith N. McKenna:
>>>>> On 10/4/2017 11:49 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>>>>> Am 04.10.2017 um 17:42 schrieb Keith N. McKenna:
>>>>>>> On 9/30/2017 8:42 AM, Don Lewis wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 29 Sep, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>>>>>>>> That might explain why I have never seen a working WikiPublisher in 
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> last releases.
>>>>>>>>> (Since at least 4.1.2 we build with that option on Windows)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The question is: Do we need to build with that option if no one missed
>>>>>>>>> the plugin?
>>>>>>>> I've never tried to use it, so I don't know if it works or not.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently in version 4.1.3 the send to MediaWiki option does not work.
>>>>>>> My SWAG is that the Sun Wiki Publisher Extension was never updated to
>>>>>>> work with the API changes introduced with the 4.0.0 Release.
>>>>>> Confirmed (also for 4.1.4 RC4)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However it can still be installed as an extension:
>>>>>> https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/sun-wiki-publisher
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Last time I tried it the "send to" option was there, but I never tested
>>>>>> further...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>
>>>>> Mathias;
>>>>>
>>>>> It is the extension that I tested and it does not work. There were API
>>>>> changes introduced in AOO Version 4.0.0 that were most likely never
>>>>> updated in the extension. It is the extension that adds to MediaWiki
>>>>> into File/Send.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>> OK, I misunderstood.
>>>>
>>>> My hope was that at least this old extension would work, since building
>>>> with --enable-wiki-publisher (tried also the additional
>>>> --with-servlet-api-jar) does not have any effect on a build.
>>>> We build releases with that option, so normally there should be no need
>>>> to install this (old) extension.
>>>
>>> The --enable-wiki-publisher should cause the .oxt file for the extension
>>> to be built.  On FreeBSD that ends up getting packaged along with
>>> everything else and gets installed along with the rest.  By default, if
>>> you want to use it, you have to go into Extension Manager and dig around
>>> in the installed tree to find the .oxt file and add it.
>>>
>>> I haven't tried building this extension on either Linux or Windows, so I
>>> don't know if/how it gets packaged.
>>>
>>> I've got some patches in the FreeBSD port of the snapshot of trunk that
>>> causes the extensions that are built along with the rest of the source
>>> to be treated as integrated extensions so they automatically show up as
>>> installed in Extension Manager.  With that I get a functional send
>>> button that pops up a dialog box that asks for MediaWiki server and some
>>> other info.
>>>
>>> There is a bunch of stuff scattered around the wiki about bundled and
>>> integrated extensions and how they should be packaged.
>>>
>> This gets more and more interesting. I have added the Sun Wiki Publisher
>> extension to my Windows installation and It adds a "to MediaWiki" entry
>> to the File/Send options. If clicked it opens the dialog box looking for
>> the wiki URL and username and password however it does nothing with the
>> information which is what led me to believe that the API changes from
>> AOO 4.0 had not been added to the extension. That they hadn't would make
>> sense since the last time it had been uploaded to the extension site was
>> 2009-09-06. Does the extension code that the FreeBSD port builds and
>> installs actually use the information and create the a page on the wiki
>> based on the document it is run against?
> 
> I stopped where I did because I don't have a wiki that I can test
> against.
> 
Don;
I can create an mwiki account for you if you are interested in testing
your changes further. Just reply with a user name that you would like.

Regards
Keith


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