[libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 10/11/2013 12:43 PM, bjoern wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> And seeing that nlpsolver and wiki-publisher are effectively enabled
>> in all distro-configs/*.conf anyway, it would make sense to
>> de-extension-alise them, too (and have them enabled by default).  I
>
> De-extensionization likely also means it cant be packaged as a separate package
> anymore. In the long run it likely makes sense to merge often used features in
> LibreOffice if the implementation isnt huge. Wiki-publisher is somewhat
> cringe-inducing with 3.5MB size increase in the default install for a likely
> rarely used feature.
>
> OTOH, the hope is that de-extensionization might actually allow closer
> integration to reduce this footprint(*).

The easiest approach to de-extension-alization (cool word, eh?) is of 
course to tightly integrate the code into an existing module.  However, 
if there are good reasons to keep the thing separate (e.g., because it 
would drag in inappropriate dependencies), then there is no reason not 
to do so (as has e.g. be done when de-extension-alizing PDF import).

Stephan