M. Fioretti wrote: > Nobody (not me anyway) asked to use _one_ form of package. What is > important is make sure that everything is always made available online > in "source" form, that the distributors can pick and package their way > for automatic installation and upgrade. *Without* extra work like > dissecting a self-installing .sxw file to get the macro it wants to > install by itself.
Nobody should use sxw files for deployment. We use *UNO packages*. Their are zip files. They are installed using a command line tool that is part of the office installation. This tool can be executed with user or administrator (root) permissions and can deploy on a per user or on a system wide base. It will not touch any files or settings in the office installation or the user directory (and of course not anything else in your system), it will only add some files in a defined place, a subfolder of the "uno_packages" folder in either the "share" or the "user" directory. Each component gets its own subfolder, so it does not interfere with any other component, so a removal simply is done by deleting the components' directory. The smart layering concept of all extendable OOo services will automatically recognize the added component. All you have to do is to pack the zip file into a package of your choice and execute the command line tool as a postinstall script. No rocket science. > Now, since this discussion is, at least partly, made on indirect > reports of what Linux packagers love or hate, what if the interested > OO.o developers talk *directly* with them? If it helps, I can try to > mediate/organize it in the form of an email interview to be published > somewhere online, but what matters is that it happens. What do you > think? That's a good suggestion. I already said that we are willing to support anybody that wants to integrate the installation of UNO packages in whatever installer he wants. So again: if anybody wants to do it, don't hesitate to ask. The best place for this would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
