Re: Standalone KOffice for Linux, Please

Larry Short said the following, On 2008-08-19 00:42:
> I understand that this is going to a KOffice mailing list; it is an idea 
> and a request that I am hoping someone might respond to.  I first looked 
> for a forum or other way of sending this request.  If I am in the wrong 
> place with this, I would greatly appreciate being told where I might 
> take it (I am reluctant to ask where I should put it!)
> 
> *I think a standalone KOffice for Linux would be a wonderful thing.*  
> That way it would be available to people who for one reason or another 
> do not use KDE.  My reason, for instance, is that I work with a much 
> smaller and lighter distribution named Puppy, but I would like to use 
> KOffice, as it is lighter and faster than the other office suites, it 
> looks very good, and it is comprehensive and powerful.

1. Note that if you take the dependencies out of KOffice, you'll also take out 
much of the "comprehensives and power"...
I can show you possible scenario: then, once the deps are removed, users want 
the features back, so devs keep adding small feature one by one, and end up 
with ... a redundant copy of the same functions implemented again, just kept 
internally in KOffice. So the result of this would be clearly... 
OpenOffice.org... (private widget system, networking and scripting libraries, 
system integration...)

Can't believe? Just compare size of the whole KDE codebase (hundreds apps) 
with OpenOffice.org...

2. Having smaller, well splitted packages is a general hint for distributors...

PS: Trying to statically link KOffice would be interesting (a lot of manual 
work, and the result would be almost unmaintainable). So perhaps just as an 
exercise.

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