Hi Alexander, On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 26/05/12 01:59, drew a écrit : > > Hi Drew, > > > > > I believe you missed an earlier decision by the group - that extension > > is no longer supported. No reason really to open a bug report. > > > No, I didn't ;-) but hell, I thought that seeing as it is still being > provided for download on the AOOo extensions site and that nothing on > there in relation to it says that it will probably no longer work, there > is an expectation by people who previously used OOo and then upgrade to > AOOo that the connector will continue to function.
It looks like the owner of the account that uploaded that extensions is Oracle http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector so changing this is beyond the Apache OpenOffice Project, in Ccing ooo-dev so that Andrew Rist, from Oracle, gets informed about this issue. > In other words : > - if it is supposed to work, then the project should attempt to ensure > that it continues to work ; If the bug is on the extension itself, AOO developers could fix the C++ code that was granted by Oracle to the ASF, but we cannot build it nor relase it: the extension relies on LGPL (the C++ connector) and GPL (the C connector) components. > - if it is not supposed to work, then the project should either put up, > as a minimum, the fact that it is no longer supported on the extensions > website, or else pull the extension completely - obviously, pulling the > extension would upset those who still may have a use for OOo 3.2.1 or > 3.3.0 (myself included). > > So I suppose, ultimately, the problem is one of communication by the > AOOo project to the broader slice of the unwitting population less > knowledgable about the decisions made earlier on in the year. It seems people *do* still download that extension: Downloads: Today: 100 | Week: 1,612 | Month: 5,404 | Year: 230,495 I think that a good solution would be to upload a new version with the description.xml modified to include a MAXIMAL version: <dependencies> <OpenOffice.org-minimal-version value="3.1" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.1"/> <OpenOffice.org-maximal-version value="3.3" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.3"/> </dependencies> This will make the extension impossible to be installed in AOO >= 3.4 Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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