Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:08 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> > Via Simon Phipps on Twitter:
> >     "We're rewriting the LibreOffice wizards in Python 
> >      because we can no longer be sure Java will be there" 
> >       -- Michael Meeks, #FOSDEM
>
> Hopefully then Python will replace Basic too. And maybe there might even
> be some documentation for LO/Python some day.

        JFYI due to the joys of twitter - this is rather an horrible mis-quote
due to truncation. I can't remember exactly what I said, the video will
show as/when published but something like:

        "we can no longer be sure Java will be there on Windows".

        ie. having our UI bomb out with horrible dialogs suggesting people
download a JRE to make File->Wizards work is really not ideal;
especially since we bundle a (tiny) python run-time already.

        Java is still a really great way to write cross-platform extensions for
LibreOffice, and we still ship a load of java enablement pieces: they
just require a working JRE to be on the system (nothing new there).

        HTH,

                Michael.

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


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