Re: Mozilla with 680 mxx -- what are the special features?

Hi Jörg,

Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> There are three features in OOo that use mozilla:
> - address book
> Any address book supported by mozilla (mozilla's own, LDAP, possibly 
> others) can be used as address data source in OOo (e.g. for mail 
> merges). For this feature OOo includes a private copy of parts of 
> mozilla. This feature could be disabled (IIRC there is a separate 
> --disable-mozab configure flag for this)

--disable-mozilla. Which incidentially also disables digital signatures.
See below. Maybe there should be some switch --disable-mozab? Hmm. Will
think about it.

> - digital signatures
> This feature uses cryptographic functionality from the mozilla nss 
> library. The feature can't be completely disabled. IIRC this implies 
> that --disable-mozilla to build without any mozilla pieces does not work 
> any more. (Disclaimer: This may have changed since I last checked)

With integration of the cws systemmozilla (sorry, offline ATM, can't
look in EIS) --disable-mozilla works again and disabled xmlsecurity..
> 
> - LDAP user data
> OpenOffice.org can fetch some of the data about the current user (found 
> in Tools-Options-OpenOfffice.org-User Data; usable as document fields, 
> eg. in letter templates) from a LDAP directory. This feature uses the 
> LDAP-SDK that is part of mozilla. Alternatively this feature can be 
> built, completely without mozilla, to use openldap system libraries, 
> using --with-openldap.

--enable-openldap.

Grüße/Regards,

Rene