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On 10/21/2011 02:06 AM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
At 4:52pm -0400 Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Michael Meeks wrote:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4

+ getting stuck into Windows / mingw build etc.

 From the wiki page, one of the concerns is "binary incompatibility". I
assume this is in reference to extensions?

Question: is there merit to moving toward an enforced sub-process model
for extensions? My first thought is that this would do a couple of things:
[...]
5. That API definition will be a *lot* of work, but hopefully somewhat
thought out already through only a mild reengineering of the current
binary API.

The UNO API is already there.  Or what do you mean?

[...]
The upside is that if we're talking a major version change, /now/ would
be the time to do this.

A downside is that you would still need to maintain (and build!) the UNO runtime for the MSVC ABI.

-Stephan

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