Can libreoffice be used as an application platform like Eclipse RCP?

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Mon Nov 27 08:24:40 UTC 2023


Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 09:38:44AM +0200, Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro> wrote:
> Given enough time, everything is possible.

Agreed. :-)

> But is it viable to build a new product (e.g. a CAD application) on top of libreoffice code and get functionality for free like with Eclipse RCP, e.g.:

Probably there are better frameworks than the libreoffice URE for this
need. If you look at the 'Fold URE' commits in 2014, the direction is
already that using this runtime environment for anything other than
libreoffice is only a theoretical option.

Regards,

Miklos


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