Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/15/2011 05:33 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: Actually, the first times I tried to install the extension, I got an empty error dialog (I assumed it was an error dialog), and the system froze. More recently, I tried a more recent version of the extension, and this time I got the error dialog w

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Stephan, At 17:18 15-11-2011, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 11/15/2011 04:53 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: (...) OK. I have put a warning about "sudo apt-get install libreoffice-java-common" on the extension's download page. The error caused by the missing dependency was fairly serious; it caus

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/15/2011 04:53 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: Ah, yes. I was hoping to find some information on the "Others" item in the list of child elements at . My

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Stephan, Thanks for the additional guidance. At 15:48 15-11-2011, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 11/15/2011 01:39 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: At 09:59 4-11-2011, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Each .oxt extension can carry any number of dependencies, specifying conditions that need to be met by the

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/15/2011 01:39 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: At 09:59 4-11-2011, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Each .oxt extension can carry any number of dependencies, specifying conditions that need to be met by the hosting LO installation for the extension to be successfully deployable (see

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi, I am responding to the first message in this thread because it seems to be relevant to Java-based extensions. At 09:59 4-11-2011, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Hi all, As already mentioned briefly in my talk at LOCon, we need to make up our mind how to handle LO extension dependencies. Eac

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/09/2011 09:45 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: So, I think I will just introduce a new LibreOffice-minimal-version dependency after all. does that, see

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-10 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/10/2011 12:24 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: b. Will it be necessary with the new LibreOffice-minimal-version dependency to have separate extensions for LibreOffice and OpenOffice or will that be optional? As long as a given extension works fine with both LO and OOo, there's no need to add a Libre

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Stephan, So, I think I will just introduce a new LibreOffice-minimal-version dependency after all. I hand this subject in my mind for some time. Simply because I provide some extensions that now have a OpenOffice.org-minimal-version value and I was wondering how long that will last. a.

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-09 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 11/04/2011 01:33 PM, Eike Rathke wrote: On Friday, 2011-11-04 13:02:02 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: I'd tend to give the fine-grained dependencies a try. That won't work in practice, unless those can be (semi-)automatically generated. Experience shows that all programmers are lazy, and se

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-04 Thread Christophe Strobbe
At 13:02 4-11-2011, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Stephan Bergmann wrote: > As already mentioned briefly in my talk at LOCon, we need to make up > our mind how to handle LO extension dependencies. > Skipping most of this - > I'd tend to give the fine-grained dependencies a try. > That won't work in p

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-04 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi, On Friday, 2011-11-04 13:02:02 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > I'd tend to give the fine-grained dependencies a try. > > > That won't work in practice, unless those can be > (semi-)automatically generated. Experience shows that all > programmers are lazy, and seldomly go extra miles. Seco

Re: [Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Stephan Bergmann wrote: > As already mentioned briefly in my talk at LOCon, we need to make up > our mind how to handle LO extension dependencies. > Skipping most of this - > I'd tend to give the fine-grained dependencies a try. > That won't work in practice, unless those can be (semi-)automatica

[Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

2011-11-04 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Hi all, As already mentioned briefly in my talk at LOCon, we need to make up our mind how to handle LO extension dependencies. Each .oxt extension can carry any number of dependencies, specifying conditions that need to be met by the hosting LO installation for the extension to be successful