<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">For the record, I also found this page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Add-in_for_Programming_in_Calc">http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Add-in_for_Programming_in_Calc</a> This seems to allude to a much simpler way of writing Calc add-ins, but it's not clear if this alternative API is really deprecated or not, nor how it works on Linux (page refers only to 'DLL' add-ins). But I will add it to my list of things to try. An advantage might be that this extremely minimal API would be, hopefully, much more stable, although perhaps it might be slower or have some other disadvantages? Cheers JP On 06/08/13 19:50, Miklos Vajna wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:20130806095059.GB25334@suse.cz" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:29:27PM +1000, John Pye <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john.pye@anu.edu.au"><john.pye@anu.edu.au></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for that. Do you know how often we would need to recompile extensions for Calc? Every major release, or every minor release, or less often? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Worst case, every major release (like 4.1 -> 4.2). </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Does it matter that the API changes at all, or only if the bits used by the add-in have changed? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The later. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is there a way, without careful re-testing, to determine whether or not one can expect a simple Calc Add-In to be compatible with a given version of LibreOffice? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You can't avoid testing if you develop software, but one systematic way is to read the release notes of major releases, there such changes are documented, e.g. for 4.1: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#API_Changes">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#API_Changes</a> and then see if any of the changes API's are used by your extension. </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>