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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] On the acceptance of an OO.o extension installer
From:       Mathias Bauer <nospamforMBA () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-04-27 14:08:07
Message-ID: 426F9CC7.2070108 () gmx ! de
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M. Fioretti wrote:

> Nobody (not me anyway) asked to use _one_ form of package. What is
> important is make sure that everything is always made available online
> in "source" form, that the distributors can pick and package their way
> for automatic installation and upgrade. *Without* extra work like
> dissecting a self-installing .sxw file to get the macro it wants to
> install by itself.

Nobody should use sxw files for deployment. We use *UNO packages*.

Their are zip files. They are installed using a command line tool that
is part of the office installation. This tool can be executed with user
or administrator (root) permissions and can deploy on a per user or on a
system wide base. It will not touch any files or settings in the office
installation or the user directory (and of course not anything else in
your system), it will only add some files in a defined place, a
subfolder of the "uno_packages" folder in either the "share" or the
"user" directory. Each component gets its own subfolder, so it does not
interfere with any other component, so a removal simply is done by
deleting the components' directory.

The smart layering concept of all extendable OOo services will
automatically recognize the added component.

All you have to do is to pack the zip file into a package of your choice
and execute the command line tool as a postinstall script. No rocket
science.

> Now, since this discussion is, at least partly, made on indirect
> reports of what Linux packagers love or hate, what if the interested
> OO.o developers talk *directly* with them? If it helps, I can try to
> mediate/organize it in the form of an email interview to be published
> somewhere online, but what matters is that it happens. What do you
> think?

That's a good suggestion. I already said that we are willing to support
anybody that wants to integrate the installation of UNO packages in
whatever installer he wants. So again: if anybody wants to do it, don't
hesitate to ask.

The best place for this would be dev@udk.openoffice.org.

Ciao,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead
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