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On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 13:12 +0100, Andre Schnabel wrote:
Von: Martin Srebotnjak <miles@filmsi.net>
..
just thinking loud (hope it is not too loud): is it possible to* make 
help packs into extensions* (oxt files)? 

        Sounds (to me) like a really good idea :-) May not work well for Linux
- where you want the help installed in the system, but that is different
enough anyway.

I tried this briefly for one of the LibO beta versions. In theory
the mechanism is there but in reality I ended up with a mix of
English and German help. Maybe this could be fixed, but the no-go
for me was that the activation of the extension took about half an hour
(on a Windows7 DualCore AMD PC).

        Lol :-) that does sound deadly silly.

It does already, but currently it builds index files on installing /
activating the extension what takes a lot of time. I have no idea
if we could "prebuild" the index and put this into the extension.

        Oh - we can certainly special case / disable that for our extensions
that already come with a pre-built help index. Better, we should speed
up the indexing with clucene; but that is all quite do-able. It would
help to have a stack trace of quite how the slowness gets called in that
case though (if that is possible to get on Windows).

        Martin - is that something you might be interested in working on ?
and/or if not - could you add it as an easy hack - which will need some
research doing on it to make it easy [ samples of other code that packs
extensions, thoughts on solving path problems on Mac vs. Windows etc. ].

        ATB,

                Michael.

-- 
 michael.meeks@novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot



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