On 11/02/2013 Hagar Delest wrote:
No real problem with reinstalling extensions after a major upgrade, I've
done that too.
But there is a difference between the mere inconvenience of reinstalling
extensions and losing them completely (waiting that someone dare update
them).
The real issue is here indeed. Reinstalling won't be perceived as a big
problem. But the fact that reinstalling the same extension won't work
will be a problem.
Most of the extensions hosted on extensions.openoffice.org won't be
updated, and extensions.openoffice.org does not support filtering by
version (and anyway the information would be missing in current
releases). The top five extensions at
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/most_popular
total 1 million downloads per year, which could give some backing to the
nightmare support scenario Hagar envisions.
Ariel posted to the API list saying that the two reasonable options in
his opinion are either to keep or revert his entire change (Hagar,
please note that Ariel asked not to start a discussion here and now, and
mentioned he cannot be responsive at the moment; anyway...). But if
there is a way, even using redundant code, to still support the old and
new toolbar handling this would be very useful to end-users. From the
FOSDEM talks I understood there could the possibility to still support
both mechanisms (and of course, warn users when the "deprecated" one is
used).
Regards,
Andrea.
