RE: [libreoffice-users] LO Conflicts with OOo

It makes perfect sense that OOo and LO could be installed side by side and also run at the same 
time.  

The problem is that they all lay claim to the same program names, library names, and probably 
registry settings.  

(The use of the same program names is why Windows, for example, can't have Open With ... for both
LO, and OOo on the association of programs with file extensions, such as .odt and .ods.  (But one 
can
add Open With ... Microsoft Word, WinZip, etc.  Different versions of the same product are harder 
for Windows to distinguish with Open With ..., absent some creative work on the part of the 
producers of those product versions.)

Now that there are different lineages progressing from a common OO.o 3.2-or-so base, there needs to 
be a way to avoid collisions with parallel efforts and the common past versions.

For users, all of their choices should work.  Running a portable version should work.  Having user 
accounts with different versions should work, etc.  I suspect that these cases have simply not been 
dealt with systematically, although clearly there has been some attention to it. And if it is by 
design to not all concurrent operation, I would expect gentle handling when an user violates that 
constraint.

(I have no recommendation on what installs are on top of what previous versions of the same 
product. It may be a little too course-grained that any LO 3.y will replace any LO 3.x where x < y, 
although that is a second-order problem.  It is good that LO 3.y does not replace OOo 3.x, and vice 
versa.)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Zietsman [mailto:sziets@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 05:44
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Conflicts with OOo

Harold Fuchs wrote:
[ ... ]

I may be mistaken but as far as I know, LO and OOo are not expected to
run at the same time (so I don't think it is a bug).  But if they are
both installed on the same computer, they should both work (though not
at the same time).  Same would apply to the portable version(s).

> Why should I not be able to run LO and OOo at the same time on the same machine?

Anyone care to comment?

Regards
Stephan



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