Re: XPackageManagerManager.removePackage changes

Tobias Krais wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
> 
>>> That would mean this functionality is close to
be published!?
> 
>> no, as i mentioned before it is intended for
private usage  I am
not
>> sure if  it will be published. I don't see really
demand for it. for
>> what exactly do you need it where you can't use the
extensions manager
>> or unopkg directly?
> 
> All our clients with an Windows XP system have admin
access. They will
> install a new OpenOffice version as soon as OpenOffice
tells them about
> the new version. Thus the path to the Extension Manager
changes and is
> out of my scope.
> 
> Currently we use a little batch file installing the
extension or
> updating it with the extension manager. But the paths
in the batch file
> are hard coded.
i understand that, but maybe you have the chance to figure
out where the 
office gets installed. Calling unopkg should be sufficient
enough.

> 
> We would prefer the solution of checking (updating or
installing) an
> extension from within Java, because we start OpenOffice
from a little
> Java programm. Thus we can check whether the correct
Extension version
> is installed and install a different if necessary.
ok, sounds like a valid use case.

> 
> And there is an other reason. Our clients use
OpenOffice on different
> platforms. The paths on these platforms are different.
Using the API to
> manage packages is the only platform independent
solution.
> 
> For us, publishing the api would be very useful.
i understand that and i agree that it would make sense in
this case. But 
the whole extension feature (the whole infra structure) is
under 
development and wouldn't publish the API at the moment. We
can discuss 
this later (in a year or so) when we have reached a more
final state.

You have probably to work around this problem and you can't
count on a 
fast stable API solution.

Sorry, but i really don't see any chance to publish the API
soon, we 
have learned from our mistakes in the past 

Juergen

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Hi Juergen,

> i understand that and i agree that it would make sense
in this case. But
> the whole extension feature (the whole infra structure)
is under
> development and wouldn't publish the API at the moment.
We can discuss
> this later (in a year or so) when we have reached a
more final state.
> 
> You have probably to work around this problem and you
can't count on a
> fast stable API solution.
> 
> Sorry, but i really don't see any chance to publish the
API soon, we
> have learned from our mistakes in the past 

I understand. But I'm happy that you agree that there are
some valid use
cases and that the process of publishing is started.

Greetings, Tobias

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