[libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

[Tor Lillqvist]

I have no clue about Eclipse, except that I can only strongly agree
with what Michael said: It is fairly unlikely that Eclipse (or any
other similar tool) would be able to make sense out of the whole
LibreOffice source code (or just the Calc-related parts), at least not
using reasonable time and space, but I just want to point out a
potential misunderstanding in your email.

You mention "the modules that make up calc" and "the entire calc
program". Please note that LibreOffice Calc is not a separate program.
Calc, Writer, Impress etc are all the same program (on Linux and OS X
the executable file is called "soffice", on Windows "soffice.bin").
Calc, Writer etc are just different kinds of top-level windows
(corresponding to different kinds of documents) that this program
displays. If you have both a Calc and Writer window open at the same
time, there is still just one soffice program running.

Sure, on Linux, when LibreOffice is packaged the way it is in most
distros, it is possible to install LibreOffice leaving out the Base or
Draw functionality for instance (I think). That doesn't mean they
would be separate programs.

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