Re: [dev] packaging ogltrans as oxt?

2008-04-07 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Andrew Ziem wrote: Hello, I heard it's easy to package ogltrans as oxt, so I wonder if I am closer to success or closer to exposing my ignorance. :) I have an oxt**, but it fails to load with error like (com.sun.start.lang.DisposedException) {{{Message = "URP_Bridge : disposed\X000a(tid=22)

[dev] packaging ogltrans as oxt?

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Ziem
Hello, I heard it's easy to package ogltrans as oxt, so I wonder if I am closer to success or closer to exposing my ignorance. :) I have an oxt**, but it fails to load with error like (com.sun.start.lang.DisposedException) {{{Message = "URP_Bridge : disposed\X000a(tid=22) Unexpected connecti

Re: [dev] packaging

2006-08-18 Thread NAKATA Maho
In Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Leibowitz, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing research on software packaging systems. I know that > openoffice.org can be a difficult piece of software to package and was > curious how many people devote most or part of their time to packaging.

[dev] packaging

2006-08-07 Thread Leibowitz, Michael
I'm doing research on software packaging systems. I know that openoffice.org can be a difficult piece of software to package and was curious how many people devote most or part of their time to packaging. The DomainDeveloper page on the wiki lists a few, but I'm sure there are more. I'd also be c

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-07-04 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi Jurgen a working solution will probably have influence on the decision. We talk here about a huge project and we don't make a decision based on some gut feeling. sure !! but you may admit that the problem is a 'cricular reference' :-) Btw, i may find some volunteers setting up a protot

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-07-04 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi, saying it's "easy" is easy ;-), i know that it is possible to extract data and create for example a PDF. But the output isn't comparable to what we have at the moment. Show me a working and satisfying solution and we can discuss it. Juergen, you know such a solutio

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-07-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - - using non-free libraries like gpc (thankfully now avoidable by --disable-gpc and using basegfxs stuff) >>> This is indeed

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-30 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi, saying it's "easy" is easy ;-), i know that it is possible to extract data and create for example a PDF. But the output isn't comparable to what we have at the moment. Show me a working and satisfying solution and we can discuss it. Juergen, you know such a solution is not yet set up and

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-30 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Juergen Our docbook filter hasn't the quality to use it in production, maybe some volunteers are interested and like to work on improvements of the filter. We at inDesko wroked on ooo2dbk framework, i announced last year you may find here in french for the most up to

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-30 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Jürgen, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: We also thought about a transformation into the wiki but it is not yet clear how we can extract the relevant info from the wiki to prepare a usable guide (e.g. PDF) as we can it currently. Although a wiki would have some advantages we currently prefer a differen

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-30 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi Juergen Our docbook filter hasn't the quality to use it in production, maybe some volunteers are interested and like to work on improvements of the filter. We at inDesko wroked on ooo2dbk framework, i announced last year you may find here in french for the most up to date version http://ww

[dev] Doc format (Was: Re: [dev] Packaging process)

2006-06-30 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Vendredi 30 Juin 2006 09:29, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit : > mmh not sure if you can help at the moment. That we will open source the > guide is as likely as not (everything else would be surprising for me). > But we currently evaluating the format. The guide was transformed into > solbook which is a

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-30 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Juergen, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: we are currently evaluating if we can open source the guide. But i would Can we help somehow? mmh not sure if you can help at the moment. That we will open source the guide is as likely as not (everything else would be

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Juergen, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: we are currently evaluating if we can open source the guide. But i would Can we help somehow? Juergen Kay - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[dev] DevGuide license (was: Re: [dev] Packaging process)

2006-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 17:36 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: > Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > > Rene, > > > > Rene Engelhard wrote: > >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37034 > > So, obviously the Dev.Guide is non-free. I wouldn't say that OOo is > > non-free

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 17:36 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: > Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > > Rene, > > > > Rene Engelhard wrote: > >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37034 > > So, obviously the Dev.Guide is non-free. I wouldn't say that OOo is > > non-free

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37034 So, obviously the Dev.Guide is non-free. I wouldn't say that OOo is non-free because of this. In this sense, Debian can obviously redistribute the OOo SDK without the Dev

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Rene, that was a fast reply :-) Rene Engelhard wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 15:34 schrieb Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg: distributions (not me) don't ship db4.2 anymore so they need to maintain own patches to use db4.3/4.4 which can't go upstream.. At least the numbering (minor upda

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 15:34 schrieb Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg: > > distributions (not me) don't ship db4.2 anymore so they need to > > maintain own > > patches to use db4.3/4.4 which can't go upstream.. > At least the numbering (minor update only) implies compatibil

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37034 So, obviously the Dev.Guide is non-free. I wouldn't say that OOo is non-free because of this. In this sense, Debian can obviously redistribute the OOo SDK without the Dev.Guide only. That's what we do now but it

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 18:17 schrieb Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg: > Rene, > > Rene Engelhard wrote: > > We are going to ship no version of Mozilla... > No Mozilla at all? Neither Firefox nor Thunderbird etc.? Or are you > talking about the suite only? The "old" suite. > >>> http://qa.

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: We are going to ship no version of Mozilla... No Mozilla at all? Neither Firefox nor Thunderbird etc.? Or are you talking about the suite only? http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37034 So, obviously the Dev.Guide is non-free. I wouldn't say that OOo i

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - - using non-free libraries like gpc (thankfully now avoidable by --disable-gpc and using basegfxs stuff) This is indeed ugly. Could basegfxs replace gpc completely? This is mostly a questi

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - - using non-free libraries like gpc >> (thankfully now avoidable by --disable-gpc and using basegfxs stuff) > This is indeed ugly. Could basegfxs replace gpc completely? > This is mostly a question of test coverage. Functionality

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Rene, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:20:18PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 13:58 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > > > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, o

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 10:52 schrieb Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg: > Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Yes, but then you still could have updated mozilla in-tree. it's still > > 1.7.5 there. Also the handling of issue > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66338 was bad. > You ar

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: So, what are they saying that they do not update the older versions? Are they backporting the fixes, or is Debian doing that? There are not. There wasn't really firefox security updates except new firefox releases with other stuff. Same with the "normal" Mozilla. Do

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 13:58 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > Hi Rene, > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, one single > > > "Distributor". > > > > This comparison is shit. >

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Oliver Braun
Hi Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: (Not to mention you renamed the packages so that they are not parallel installable anymore with the official debs, but that's another matter) This is unfortunate. But, we can not really know and check all distros package

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > >I cannot gurantee it. I wrote that mail in one go. > So, I suggest that you reread your mails before pushing the send button. > I do not have any tolerance for lazy mails (while I do not say that your

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Janne, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:10:01PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:10:09AM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > >> 2006/6/26, Éric Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > It's fine that OOo is relocatable, just rpm's usually arent, whereas stuff > doing > configure

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: [...] What I wanted to say with the introduction was that I tried to be polite but as there was things you mentioned which are no-no for distributions and you offended all Debian

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 27 Juin 2006 14:14, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > > I did not know that. So that would be equivalent to a "make install"? > > Where is that documented? > > There is some minimalistic info in the Hacking-guide in the wiki. OK. Minimalistic info in some hackers guide. On the other hand, "

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Janne Johansson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:10:09AM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > 2006/6/26, Éric Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 15:47, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit: > >> > - OOo should not attempt to build its own packages, at least under > >Linux. > >> > Under Linux, that

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: [...] What I wanted to say with the introduction was that I tried to be polite but as there was things you mentioned which are no-no for distributions and you offended all Debian users I needed to make clear I

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ late answer, I needed time to *try* make my answer polite, sorry if that doesn't happen all the time in this post, for the record I am one of the two people making the Debian packages, currently the most active one o

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Jane, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:10:09AM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > 2006/6/26, Éric Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 15:47, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit: > >> > - OOo should not attempt to build its own packages, at least under > >Linux. > >> > Under Li

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:09:39AM +0200, Éric Bischoff wrote: > Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 21:33, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > > ? The user doesn't have to bother. Either they use the packages provided > > by $distribution or they take the packages from vanilla OOo. > > > > And the packagers who are

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 13:56 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > You shouldn't have made it polite, but instead should have tried to > focus on the topic itself. (note that the thread is labeled with "packaging > process"...) And it already drifted away a bit. > > In any case, it is a no-no for a L

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 13:26 schrieb Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg: > > That's the distributions' issue. > EXACTLY No. It's not. You mean that it's a problem for *you*. I mean outdated packages in a distribution is _at first_ a problem of that *distri itself*. That real outdated packaegs

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Rene, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, one single > > "Distributor". > > This comparison is shit. Starts great. > > But on windows you can basically get every software from a

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:02:58PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > [ late answer, I needed time to *try* make my answer polite, sorry if that > doesn't happen all the time in this post, for the record I am one of the > two people making the Debian packages, currently the most active one of

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: ROTL. Not everything the LSB says makes sense. The OOo build system *has* support for building debs. Use this. This unfortunately does not work for people not building their own OOo. A while ago it was planned (->Martin H.: any news on this?) to provide .debs fo

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Janne Johansson
2006/6/27, Éric Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Le Mardi 27 Juin 2006 10:10, Janne Johansson a écrit: > > Any package maintainer listening here to confirm or denegate what I am > > saying ? I used to work in a linux distribution, so I think I can express > > opinions on this topic, but some packag

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > >1) I think it just makes the life of OOo package maintainers in the Linux > >distributions much harder. I suppose that they basically rpm-install the > >OOo packages, and then repackage them. Or some m

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Lohmaier wrote: > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, one single > "Distributor". This comparison is shit. > But on windows you can basically get every software from any vendor. If > it is labeled "runs on windows XP", you

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ late answer, I needed time to *try* make my answer polite, sorry if that doesn't happen all the time in this post, for the record I am one of the two people making the Debian packages, currently the most active one of both ] Kay Ramme - Sun Germany

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Janne, Janne Johansson wrote: If not for those reasons, then for the reason that zillions of other opensource products happen to have a "unpack ; configure ; make ; make install" routine well built in into the spines of us builders. In general, it shouldn't be to hard to support the "classic" L

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Éric, Éric Bischoff wrote: No. I usually do my "make install"s as root, but that's not necessary. You can "make install" to your home directory if you wish. There's a configure flag named "--prefix" for that. Did not know that, thanks. And yes, I know that this is a sensitive topic to dis

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 27 Juin 2006 10:10, Janne Johansson a écrit : > > Any package maintainer listening here to confirm or denegate what I am > > saying ? I used to work in a linux distribution, so I think I can express > > opinions on this topic, but some package maintainers might see that > > differently. >

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 27 Juin 2006 09:57, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit : > > Yup. In my honest opinion, if you really want to build packages, it > > should be done the regular way, on top of a "make install". > > That implicits, to be able to work as root on a dedicated machine, while > only wantin

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 21:33, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > ? The user doesn't have to bother. Either they use the packages provided > by $distribution or they take the packages from vanilla OOo. > > And the packagers who are doing the packages for their distribution > should know how to unpack som

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-27 Thread Janne Johansson
2006/6/26, Éric Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 15:47, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit: > > - OOo should not attempt to build its own packages, at least under Linux. > > Under Linux, that's the distributions' work! > > This problem is related to the "make instal

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-27 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Éric, Éric Bischoff wrote: I - "Good" reasons 1) Suitability - Not all the Linux distributions follow the same purposes. Some are for desktop users, some are for generic servers, some are for specialized purposes like firewalls, application servers or clustering. Some try to imitate Windows

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Éric Bischoff wrote: > Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 20:19, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > > > > OOo as "vanilla" OOo doesn't have any external dependencies. > > You don't need to install the rpms to repackage them. > > > > rpm2cpio & cpio or any of these a

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-26 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 20:19, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > > OOo as "vanilla" OOo doesn't have any external dependencies. > You don't need to install the rpms to repackage them. > > rpm2cpio & cpio or any of these archivemanagers can extract all the > files for you. Yes. You can also install the

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Éric, *, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:25:17PM +0200, Éric Bischoff wrote: > Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 17:40, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit : > [...] > > But, in the end, what is the difference between rpm-install and make > > install (despite that some products may not be able to de-insta

Re: [dev] Packaging process

2006-06-26 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 17:40, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit : > > Okay, we have diverging opinions on this point ;-). > > Professional answer :-), ;-) > I think I had implicitly the hope that you > might be able to explain to me the motivations of the distributions, to > always rebuil

Re: [dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-26 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Éric Bischoff wrote: Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 15:47, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit : - OOo should not attempt to build its own packages, at least under Linux. Under Linux, that's the distributions' work! This problem is related to the "make install" one. In my opinion, OOo is showi

[dev] Packaging process (Was: Re: [dev] Survey - OpenOffice.org Developer Feedback Needed)

2006-06-26 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 26 Juin 2006 15:47, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg a écrit : > > - OOo should not attempt to build its own packages, at least under Linux. > > Under Linux, that's the distributions' work! > > This problem is related to the "make install" one. > > In my opinion, OOo is showing the ri

Re: [dev] Packaging a filter in a *.jar file in OOo2.0

2005-04-05 Thread Pierre-Andre Galmes
* Andreas Schlüns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 08:48]: > Hello Pierre-Andre! Hello Andreas, Firstly, thank-you for your answer which enlight my day ;-). In order to try to help the following developpers trying to figure out how all this work, I will try to "over-explain" the facts. > The file "Ty

Re: [dev] Packaging a filter in a *.jar file in OOo2.0

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Schlüns
Hello Pierre-Andre! Hello, I wrote an xslt filter for OOo2.0, and have some problems to package it. Under the previous versions of OpenOffice.org, I packaged the filter as a "jar" file, so that I could import it in OpenOffice.org using the box "Tools > Xml Filter Settings...", and then the "Open Pa

[dev] Packaging a filter in a *.jar file in OOo2.0

2005-03-30 Thread Pierre-Andre Galmes
Hello, I wrote an xslt filter for OOo2.0, and have some problems to package it. Under the previous versions of OpenOffice.org, I packaged the filter as a "jar" file, so that I could import it in OpenOffice.org using the box "Tools > Xml Filter Settings...", and then the "Open Package..." dialog.