Python extension not working on Mac (LibreOffice 4.0.2.2)

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 04/18/2013 11:15 AM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> The problem is that on the installation LibreOffice 4 reports this error:
>   "(com.sun.star.lang.DispoedException) {{{ Message="Binary URP bridge
> disposed during call", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @21f87558
> }}}"

When you ask LO to install an extension, it offloads the work of 
actually loading the extension's files to an additional process, and 
that process apparently crashed.  One way that could help to find out 
more is to set "ulimit -c unlimited", hope that the crashing process 
leaves a core file behind in /cores/, and use gdb to get a backtrace.

> Doing a bit of investigation I've found that if I delete this line:
> <manifest:file-entry
> manifest:media-type="application/vnd.sun.star.uno-component;type=Python"
> manifest:full-path="Scripts/MendeleyDesktopAPI.py"/>
>
> from the file (inside the extension) META-INF/manifest.xml then it can be
> installed correctly (but it doesn't work).

With that, LO will ignore the Python code in the extension, so it will 
effectively behave like a no-op extension---which trivially installs 
fine but does not do anything.

Stephan