On 10/11/2013 12:11 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
But what was the story with mysql-connector-ooo, these days
apparently enabled via a switch called
--enable-ext-mariadb-connector? That switch is off by default, and
it is not mentioned in any distro-configs/*.conf, so appears to be
effectively dead code. Or was that the extension that cannot be
included in installation sets for whatever reason (and is only
included in our source tree to make it easy to build it)? I guess
Lionel knows.
Links against GPLed code, so TDF's policy of no strongly copylefted
code means that TDF builds don't bundle it.
Ah, so that's apparently indeed what's up at
<http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-libreoffice-4.x>.
Ubuntu, Debian and (I guess) most GNU/Linux distributions have no
problem with (strongly) copylefted code and they ship it.
As a bundled extension (ending up unzip'ed into the LO installation's
share/extension) directory, I assume?
(I'm asking because there are cooking up changes to the UNO component
"prefix" feature that would make it desirable that no non-bundled
extension ever used that "prefix" feature. Unfortunately, the
mysql-connector-ooo.oxt that can be built from the LO source tree
started to use that "prefix" feature with
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cd79d51420b90117d0f3e1d5f3cdf9187bd61b88>
"prefix all component_getFactory methods" towards LO 4.1. However, the
only non-bundled instance of that extension out there that I am aware
of,
<http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-libreoffice-4.x/releases/1.0/mysql-connector-ooo.oxt>,
is luckily old enough to not yet use that feature.)
Stephan
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