On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Simon Kornblith <si...@simonster.com> wrote: > As I wrote in a previous post to openoffice-dev, this is not just about > having to modify the extension, which I would be happy to do. It's also about > having to modify the way we install the extension. But it's mostly that our > extension will break on upgrade from AOO 3.4 to AOO 4 for 100% of our users > no matter what, and the best we can do is to pop up a dialog telling the user > to update or reinstall it. > > If we can get a promise that future updates to AOO will always allow a single > extension to work with both previous and current AOO versions (even if > updates to the extension are necessary to do so) then I'd feel better about > supporting AOO 4. >
The goal now, as always, is to preserve compatibility within a major release series. So extensions for AOO 4.0 should be run fine on AOO 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc. However, at major version updates, e.g., AOO 5.0, then you can expect extensions will need to be updated. Such major version releases happen at long intervals, longer than (I assume) your regular maintenance updates in your extension itself. Regards, -Rob > Simon > > On Aug 11, 2013, at 7:26 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Dan Stillman <dstill...@zotero.org> wrote: >> Nothing to do with memes or marketing. >> >> https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/30885/openoffice-400-no-zotero-toolbar/ >> >> So acording to this forum, is because of Apache OpenOffice active >> development as opposed to innactive development that Zotero plugin can't >> work. >> >> We have been documenting the changes and docs for extension mantainers >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions/Extensions_and_Apache_OpenOffice_4.0 >> >> Why toolbar change? As you might know UX changes in AOO4 had an impact on >> the XML schema for our UI. Feel free to add support for 4.0 following these >> improvements. >> >> >> >> >> On 8/11/13 7:04 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> This seems a bit full of memes. Which is also a big hurdle on our lack of >>> marketing to bring users back into the active state of Apache OpenOffice. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> *Though I am not personally all that active.. >>> * >>> I think AOO is extremely actively under development. >>> * >>> >>> Apache OpenOffice 4 users:* Zotero does not currently support Apache >>> OpenOffice 4. While a future release may include support for Apache >>> OpenOffice 4, we encourage you to switch to >>> LibreOffice<http://www.libreoffice.org/download>, >>> which is based on the same codebase but is more actively developed. >>> http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation >>> >>> Grrr! >>> >>> Wolf Halton >>> >>> -- >>> This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com >>> Security in the Cloud - >>> http://AtlantaCloudTech.com<http://atlantaCloudTech.com> >>> Apache Developer wolfhal...@apache.org >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alexandro Colorado >>> Apache OpenOffice Contributor >>> http://www.openoffice.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> Apache OpenOffice Contributor >> http://www.openoffice.org >> >> >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
