On 10/22/2013 7:15 AM, Herbert Dürr wrote:
On 22.10.2013 14:22, Herbert Dürr wrote:
On 22.10.2013 13:46, janI wrote:
On 22 October 2013 13:30, Herbert Dürr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
[...]
Since issue 91209 the mozilla address books were disabled on Mac
altogether anyway, so on Mac we could rid AOO of its heavy Seamonkey
dependency really soon without removing any features by using NSS
instead
of bundling a large set of Seamonkey libraries.
On the other platforms a very high percentage of our user base
wouldn't
notice any missing features if the Mozilla address book support was
removed
there too.
I have no problem with that, since it makes our product lighter and
simpler. But for this I think we need user opinions.
Yes, whether we build our next release with the --enable-mozab-module
option or without it is open for discussion. Now if there were
volunteers that implemented extensions for mapping mork/ldap/wab address
books to AOO's SDBC API then the whole mozab module would be superfluous
anyway and the discussion would have only one reasonable result.
A small status update regarding the state of the existing mozilla
address book integration: Non-anonymous LDAP address books was out of
order [1] since 2008, the windows address book didn't work since 2006
if it contained any distribution list [2] and was broken on all now
supported Microsoft operating systems [3] since at least 2008.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=85356
[2] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=63270
[3] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=91079
This is an interesting reality check and I'm afraid the project lost
users that depended on that functionality long ago. On the other hand
these facts enable us to kick this non-functioning and unmaintainable
crap out without a serious negative impact.
With these new insights I suggest to remove both the enable-mozilla
and its eventual replacement enable-mozab-module before losing much
more time on that topic. The sooner the better.
+1
This should simplify the configure options. All the mozilla stuff will
be gone and there will be no more enable/disable mozilla/mozab options -
right?
A.
Herbert
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