regcomp under windows, registering components

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 06/11/2012 04:55 PM, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> Is there a tool to handle services.rdb, beside pure xml text edition?

Nothing besides (XML-aware) text editors.  regview etc. no longer work 
on it.  (Which I considered a minor problem when changing it, as the 
information is already textual now.  But of course, any scripts etc. 
built around it would now need to be adapted.)

> How easy it is to have the extension manager GUI as a installable
> module, or bundled optional extension? Is it something that can fit into
> an easy hack? (I am seeking to clone the update manager feature as
> starting point).

If you want to make the extension manager GUI into an optional module 
(so that, e.g., end users have no easy way to mess with it), that 
shouldn't be too difficult.  Things that come to mind:

* The code should mostly be separated into a deploymentgui dynamic 
library already (in module desktop).

* Hooks that call into that code are "Tools - Extension Manager..." and 
trying to open an .oxt file (e.g., passing it to LO on command line).

* It might be necessary to make the code for only update of extensions 
conditional on whether the GUI is available.

* There might be more...

Stephan