Hi Tim, On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:42 -0400, Webmaster for Lungstrom.com wrote: > On 06/30/2011 10:02 AM, drew wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 09:29 -0400, Webmaster for Lungstrom.com wrote: > >> I have been real sick since Friday, so I just started reading some of > >> the emails. > >> > >> > >> Here is the directory files as I have it now on my computer. All the > >> dictionary files have .dic dates included in their file names. > >> You will also have to do a copy/paste from the updated dictionary list > >> on the extensions.html file. That has all the dictionaries linked with > >> their dates. > >> http://libreoffice-na.us/add-on-dictionaries-large-list.zip > >> > >> I did not remove the old, non-dated, versions of these dictionary files > >> from the web site server yet. > > @Tim - lest I forget to say this - You Rock! > > > > > The reason I have so many files on the server was the fact I never > removed the older files. > > 3.3.1, 3.3.2, and 3.3.3 install files are all on the server.
OK <snip> > I want to keep as many > of the versions as I can archived, for now, offline. But having them > archived online might be a good thing for people as well, since I know > someone wanted them and I could not remember how to find the LO site's > archived section for older versions. I doubt anyone would mind if you do so - but you should know also that on the CMS server all these versions are also available, from 3.3.1 - 3.4.x, at the moment. They are not directly available to web clients but are available for disc production purposes. > > I think Florian will want the 3 missing 4.1 version French dictionaries > on their server, so I sent them to you and those emails on that message > "thread". I can't speak for Florian but I he is not the real go to guy on this. > I also found a few other .oxt dictionaries not listed on the > OOo site. Those would be nice to include in the dictionary list. Alright - well, would need to check the license on those files but otherwise it sounds good - let's review them. > > The extensions.html file has all the dictionaries, as far as I remember, > linked to the .oxt files that have their .dic dates included so the > users can know who up-to-date those word lists are. It is nice when you > find ones that have version numbers being updated, but, as far as I > know, some have been updated in the past without any version number > shown in the filename. > > Also the info you asked about what we do with all these dictionaries, > extensions, and templates, we/I have needing a place for sharing with > other projects is important. There are so many extensions that have not > been added to our NA list that I have in my offline archive[s]. These > need to be placed on a LibreOffice server for everyone to be able to > download and/or use in their own CMS page[s]. LO users should not have > to go to flaky OOo pages to get these .oxt files. I fully agree that it is high time to _stop_ referring LibreOffice users to OpenOffice.org resources! Whether is documentation, wiki pages, extensions, templates or user support. As for using the libo-na.us server for distributing some extensions, maybe - I'm not sure how that would work however and it would need to be talked through. There is a definite problem facing LibreOffice users with regards to what extensions TDF is willing to make available and I would love to host a site that makes those TDF will not host available - HOWEVER - I assume that will need to be unambiguously _not_ directly associated with TDF. The LO-Portal name might work for that, but libreOffice-na.us would likely be a big problem. > > If need be, I would create several extension pages for use on a LO > server. It will not be one that you can search like OOo's site, but it > could be organized in function groups. Dictionaries in one group, > Writer aids in another. Special functions in a third, etc., etc.. We > can decide how the extensions are grouped. Then you could either have > one large page with "shortcut" anchors to skip down to the group you > need, or make the groups different pages. Thanks for the offer - the LibO extension site is fully under development already. http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/libreoffice-extensions I'm sure folks there would be interested in your help. hmm - actually I'm just assuming dictionaries will go on this site - don't actually know - will need to ask the people making the decisions about this service. > > I have over 80[?] extensions with almost 200 dictionaries, if you do not > count both the original and updates files. I know there are more .oxt > extensions available, but I downloaded the ones that I might be > interested in using. For the total number of extensions that are out > there on the OOo site, and other places, I "feel" there may be 150 to > 200 of them, with many not needed anymore or not working with the newer > versions of OOo or LO. > > So, there are a lot of things needed to be though about for dictionaries > and other extensions. Yup - agreed. <snip>, //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to projects+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
