[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

Le 14/09/11 22:40, Robert Ryley a écrit :

Hi Robert,

> If there is a move away from java, that is going to make a significant
> portion of that documentation obsolete.  Is there anything
> specifically related to the move away from java documented anywhere?
> Any idea what the API is going to be to replace it?

AFAIK support for Java is not being dropped, i.e. the API and UNO will
still support Java implementations of functionality, rather the hooks
which provide currently provide certain functionality, e.g. the Wizards,
are being converted to other coding languages, such as Python. The aim
is reduce dependency on Java implementations where possible, replacing
them with other coding alternatives.

There has been a GSOC project this year to achieve that very goal, i.e.
the migration of at least some of the assistants from a Java based
implementation to a Python based implementation. These are currently in
the 3.5 development branch of the code.

I'm not actually sure if this is documented anywhere, but most likely
this will have been decided in the Engineering Steering Committee
meetings. The reports of these are posted on the wiki.


Alex


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