On 2012-03-05 7:17 PM Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Larry Gusaas<larry.gus...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2012-03-05 4:38 PM Rob Weir wrote:
This has been known for several months and has been part of the 3.4 plan.
We discussed it extensively in early December. Certainly if you have new
information, new workarounds, new proposals, or even new code, then I'm new
we all would love to know about it. But if you are just noticing this for
the first time, you might want to check the list archives to catch up on the
previous discussion first. Search for "berkeleydb".
The problem with the database was known. The fact that you were planning to
release a version that overwrote OOo and erased the extensions in the user
profile was not clear until you asked for testing. And now you are
complaining about us reporting the problems found.
Maybe not clear to you, but the information was provided in early
December when the code change was made. This was not hidden. The
implications of this were plainly stated, for example on the wiki page
that explained the user-facing ramifications of removing the Berkeley
DB:
"The impact is that extensions installed for older versions of
OpenOffice have to be re-installed."
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/IP_Clearance+Impact
Once again you are missing the point. The issue is overwriting 3.4 on the previous OOo
installation and using the old user profile, which causes the deletion of all extensions from
the user profile.
If the user then decides to return to a earlier version, the user profiled is fucked and they
have to reinstall all extensions. That would not make for a happy user.
It would be better to release as AOO 3.4 and create a totally new profile rather than overwrite
the program and mess up the old user profile.
As for precedent, when Sun released OOo 3.0 it created a new profile and did not use the
profile from OOo 2.xx, at least on Mac installs.
As for you references to Microsoft updates, that is a bunch of crap. Do you really want to use
Microsoft as an example? Or is that typical of IBM as well?
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Larry I. Gusaas
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Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
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