Hi Ariel;

I honestly have no idea how this works: can we turn this
into an uno extension, and make it available in the
extensions site?

We can keep the sources, and maybe even some SVN history,
in Apache-extras but once it builds I don't think we have
to do a lot of maintenance.

Pedro.

--- On Thu, 11/10/11, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:

> 
> the reportbuilder won't be built nor released by AOOo, but
> anyone can
> take the sources and build it (for example, it would be
> useful to take 
> the sources and make a Netbeans project out of it).
> This extension is not really extension in the real sense of
> the term 
> (extending OOo without touching any line of source code),
> it depends on
> the core functionality introduced in the reportdesign
> module.
> AOOo is not removing reportdesign nor reportbuilder.
> 
> The main issue is not the source code (on the software
> grant from
> Oracle, so no issue at all), nor the 3rd parties libraries
> (the code
> that relies on them can be built as an extension by anyone
> who wants),
> but the lack of man power with the knowledge to maintain
> and further
> develop it.
> 
> Regards
> -- 
> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> La Plata, Argentina
> 

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