Hi,
I would like to suggest to skip the systemintegration and the whole
installation process for the developer snapshot builds and instead
create a file archive (zip,gz) which simply extracts to a ready to use
OpenOffice.
For the following reasons:
1) Installing a developersnapshot with systemintegration does rule out
your regular working version of OpenOffice on your computer. You
automatically get the snapshot when doubleclicking files on windows for
example. Thus you easily can use the snapshot by accident for important
work, which may cause great trouble to you as a snapshot could be very
unstable.
2) Currently you can not install two different snapshots in parallel.
Thus you are forced to deinstall a newer snapshot (173 from the master
trunk) for example if you want to check a snapshot from any CWS which is
still on 172. So one disadvantage is the extra work here (waiting for
the slow deinstallation) and the other disadvantage is, that you will
not be able to compare the behaviour of two different snapshots easily.
3) Currently you need administrator rights on your machine if you want
to install a developer snapshots.
4) Just extracting a ready to use snapshot would be faster then the
installation process which again lowers the hurdle to fetch and check a
snapshot. Also the time for deinstallation is shorter as you only will
need to delete the directory.
5) On unix you will not need any extra scripts or further expert
knowledge to get the snapshot running. Just extract and start the office.
Any concerns?
Thanks,
Ingrid
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