Re: [libreoffice-website] searching the extension repository

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 13:24 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Drew, *,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:22 AM, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> > Quick question - if one goes to the extension repository and enters the
> > search string MySQL, should it return the MySQL connector extension
> > record in the results?
> >
> > ps - it doesn't.
>
> It does - when you set the version filter to "all versions"

Howdy Christian,

So it does.

One thing, the search filter is "Any version" not "All ..." and that is
a huge difference.

> Not sure how hard it would be to always show the ones that work in all versions.

As long as you really mean "any" then yes I think that would make sense
- in that it makes sense to have the drop down default to "Any" and in
effect turn the version filter off. ( "All" btw would be, IMO, the most
restrictive version filter, and would really not make any sense)

> I cannot think of a case where you are searching for 3.4 compatible
> extensions, 

Well, you would not want to waste the users time showing them extensions
that do not work in their particular environment. Though I would suspect
this is more likely with major version changes: ie 3.x vs 4.x.

> but don't want results that work in older ones as well,
> same for the other way round - cannot think of a usecase to search for
> extensions that work with 3.3, but not with 3.4.

Thanks for the quick reply,

//drew


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