I know that there were reasons for the fork and I respect that. I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some basic level api for 3rd party developers?
Probably not, but I think it's worth asking. Fred On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Keith Curtis <keit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Fernand Vanrie <s...@pmgroup.be> wrote: >> On 4/03/2013 8:27, M. Fioretti wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 08:16:25 AM +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote: >>> >>>> 99% percent , changes comes and will come from incompatiliteis in de API. >>>> for now this is OK, small changes from version to version, but >>>> nothing who not can been repaired or handled with the code( basic) >>>> itself >>> >>> I knew that. The sense of my question is, is there is a list of things >>> to avoid beforehand, rather than wait that they break and fix the >>> code? >> >> thats more a question for the developers list . >> libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org and fore the aOO counterpart >> ooo-...@incubator.apache.org >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Marco > > The reason why nobody responded is no one knows, and it will generally > get worse over time as the codebases diverge. It is sort of like the > Java: "write once, test everywhere" situation. > > One of the unintended consequences of the fork is the various ways it > makes things more difficult for third-parties. Users will generally > pick one product, but extension developers have a more complicated set > of choices because they may want to support multiple brands. Here is > an article I recently wrote about the power of brands that may be > helpful: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3163 > > The good news is that in the free software world, code flows with less > friction. Any typical (non-enterprise) who really wants an extension > will likely be able to install a specific version of the product if it > is required. It is just a download. > > Good luck! > > Regards, > > -Keith > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
