On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 02:14 -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > On 04/04/12 00:14, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday, 4. April 2012 at 01:08, drew wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 17:00 -0300, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:20:58PM +0200, FR web forum wrote: > >>>>>> One of the volunteers on the ES forum expressed concern about the > >>>>>> Oracle Report Builder (ORB) extension not working on AOO builds: it > >>>>>> seems that the extension installs, but reports previously created with > >>>>>> it do not run. > >>>>>> > >>>>> it is indeed a missing feature but we can't change it for now. But if > >>>>> somebody is interested to build it as an extension and host it somewhere > >>>>> else we will give support here how to do that. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Why Oracle did not donate this OXT (and other like PDF Import)? > >>>> ASF could not contact them to talk about? > >>>> > >>> > >>> The code is under the software grant. The issue here is that these > >>> extensions rely on GPL libraries, though all related code is now under > >>> ALv2: > >>> > >>> ... > >>> > >>> * PDF Import: > >>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/sdext/source/pdfimport/ > >>> > >>> That is, someone has to build them (and maintain them) as external > >>> projects. > >>> > >> > > No not really. The problem are the dependent libs as already pointed out. > > There is no or no easy replacement for this external stuff that is license > > compatible. Not nice and we would love to have alternatives ... > > If volunteers will provide an alternative implementation that would be > > Apache compatible then we will continue the support and include it as > > bundled extensions. > > The pdfimport could use pdfbox, however my understanding is that even with > a replacement the feature was not really complete without OCR > capabilities, (yes > tesseract) but well.. it involves real work(TM).
Hi Pedro, Point taken - It is not that there are any known issues, or breakages, only that no person has taken the step of building and pushing to the group for testing - is that the most accurate understanding? Thanks //drew > > The other libraries would be excellent examples of how to do extensions. > > Hmm... just for reference, I started looking "OOo Extensions for > Dummies" guide > on google and I got to this page: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples > > It has a link to the contrib dir in the old SVN server. We haven't > replicated that > in the Apache SVN. Thankfully the files are in ooo-legacy-svn in > apache-extras > in case we lose the original SVN. > > Pedro. > >
