[Libreoffice] Extension dependencies

[Christophe Strobbe]

At 13:02 4-11-2011, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > As already mentioned briefly in my talk at LOCon, we need to make up
> > our mind how to handle LO extension dependencies.
> >
>Skipping most of this -
>
> > I'd tend to give the fine-grained dependencies a try.
> >
>That won't work in practice, unless those can be
>(semi-)automatically generated. Experience shows that all
>programmers are lazy, and seldomly go extra miles.

And all generalisations are true ;-)
Even those who would be willing to use fine-grained metadata
for dependencies would benefit from an automated check on these
data. It is easy to modify the source code in the extension and
then to forget to update the dependency metadata.

Best regards,

Christophe



>Having a simple version string, and some volunteers testing uploaded
>extensions on the extension repo sounds much more workable - and
>useful in practice, since no syntactic compatibility one could come
>up with would ensure semantic equality...
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- Thorsten


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