minutes of ESC call ...

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:07:52PM +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote:

> i did a lot of googling, but still not know what are this extra
> properties ?

SelectedValue and SelectedValuesx

> Fernansd
> >On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:49:03PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> >
> >>On Thursday, 2013-05-16 16:25:40 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> >>>	+ double check Lionel's list-box / API change (Eike)
> >>Done. The two properties added to
> >>com.sun.star.form.component.DataBaseListBox are marked optional which
> >>doesn't harm existing clients.
> >I did that on advice of ... Michael Stahl? ... on IRC to shut up the
> >"incompatible API change" error the build was giving me.
> >
> >My understanding was that this was for the benefit of putative
> >existing *providers* of this service, that since the properties are
> >optional, we did not change the requirements under their feet and they
> >still conform to the service specification.
> >
> >I don't understand how the properties being not optional would harm
> >*clients* (users of the service): clients written against the old
> >specification would simply not use the new properties, would they?
> >
> >I toyed with the idea of adding a
> >com.sun.star.form.component.DataBaseListBox2 that makes them
> >non-optional so that users can be assured to have those properties,
> >but in the end I did not bother, and now we are past the 4.1 new
> >feature freeze.
> >
> 
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