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