What's the story behind pyAltFCFGMerge ?

[Matúš Kukan]

On 11 March 2013 13:58, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> Long time ago we (RH) had no java because it was pre-openjdk and per
> gcj, so we had to build with --disable-java/--without-java whichever it
> is. So when the FCFGMerge.jar tool was added we had to have an
> alternative, so I converted it to pyAltFCFGMerge, but Hamburg couldn't
> use python tools :-(, so they had to retain the java one.

oh - fun

> If pyAltFCFGMerge still works (i.e. you still get the bug list of
> filters shown in the file dialog / generates the same results as the
> java one (which it is *supposed* to do) then sure, drop the java one and
> use only the python one.

I verified it produces the same .xcu files - so I hope
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=17b2ace79b86bd772d9eb48b9c4ad69c0713695c>
"filter: use python version of FCFGMerge" will not cause any problems.
Thanks,

Matus