Hi, On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:05:02PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > On 10/11/12 17:46, Michael Meeks wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 10:51 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: > >> I see your points and concerns. Couldn't we have, as a potential > >> alternative, a hack (easy or not, I wouldn't know) to replace the > >> current implementations with something more manageable (if indeed that > >> is possible, and however that might be defined) ? > > > > I'd love to see those pieces split out to be extensions that you can > > download & use if you want to (personally). That's presumably quite some > > chunk of work though. > > that would be possible, but there are some open questions as to how to > best accomplish it: the problem is that non-URE jars are used, which is > not allowed for extensions. but that seems fixable: the used jars seem > to be the external "bsh" / "rhino" and internal "ScriptingFramework", > the latter containing common code for BeanShell/JavaScript/Java script > providers. > > the ScriptProviderForPython is already an extension so there is some > prior art on how to do it. also, until commit > a72a7dc500ffd57662e8b9be61e4676266861c33 the java ones were extensions too. > > the following options come to mind: > > 1) add ScriptFramework.jar to the URE > this would require maintaining binary compatibility; i have no idea > if that is appropriate here
I think ScriptFramework is pretty stable. The only change I remember during the whole LibreOffice lifetime is update to java 1.5: use of generics etc. > > 2) have 3 extensions and duplicate the ScriptFramework jar in each of > them; would that actually work if you install more than one of them? > > 3) have 1 extension that contains ScriptFramework plus all 3 script > providers 4) create UNO API for ScriptFramework which can be used by the providers (no idea how much work this would mean. I just wanted to add it here for the sake of completeness.) D. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
