Re: Creating extensions for LibreOffice Calc

For the record, I also found this page:
http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Add-in_for_Programming_in_Calc

This seems to allude to a much simpler way of writing Calc add-ins, but 
it's not clear if this alternative API is really deprecated or not, nor 
how it works on Linux (page refers only to 'DLL' add-ins). But I will 
add it to my list of things to try.

An advantage might be that this extremely minimal API would be, 
hopefully, much more stable, although perhaps it might be slower or have 
some other disadvantages?

Cheers
JP

On 06/08/13 19:50, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:29:27PM +1000, John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> > Thanks for that. Do you know how often we would need to recompile
> > extensions for Calc? Every major release, or every minor release, or
> > less often?
> Worst case, every major release (like 4.1 -> 4.2).
>
> > Does it matter that the API changes at all, or only if
> > the bits used by the add-in have changed?
> The later.
>
> > Is there a way, without
> > careful re-testing, to determine whether or not one can expect a
> > simple Calc Add-In to be compatible with a given version of
> > LibreOffice?
> You can't avoid testing if you develop software, but one systematic way
> is to read the release notes of major releases, there such changes are
> documented, e.g. for 4.1:
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#API_Changes
>
> and then see if any of the changes API's are used by your extension.
>
>
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