On 2/12/13 12:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > 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).
maybe you understand it wrong, no warning. If we support both the underlying code would be more complex, slower and more ugly to maintain. and Ariel pointed already out that he is not willing to support both based on this fact. Either the old or the new mechanism, or somebody else step forward and implement the change. The whole discussion is really based on assumption. We can ask our friends of SourceForge to analyze by a script all extensions and check if they contain an Addon.xcu or not. All developers, maintainers of extensions with Addon.xcu can we contact and can inform them about the proposed change and how to adapt the xcu. Juergen
