Re: Minutes for release status meeting from 2010-11-15

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:12:28PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> The effect is that an office installation based on OOo before 3.3
> cannot share a URE installation with an office installation based on
> OOo 3.3 or later.  Sharing URE installations is only relevant on
> Linux and Solaris, not on Windows and Mac OS X, and is probably more
> of theoretical than practical concern.

If that was so, we wouldn't have the bug report :)...
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603549)

> Furthermore, the jvmaccess library is considered a private part of
> the URE (see <http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO330/file/e13523b45392/ure/source/README#l68>),
> so especially no OOo extensions should link against it (which might
> otherwise cause problems, causing those extensions to not work
> across the OOo 3.3 boundary).  The OOo basis layer code violates
> this privacy and does link against the library, causing the
> incompatibility to be noticed.

But it still would break when ure gets updated to 3.3 and vcl is still 3.2..
I don't think a Breaks: openoffice.org-core (<< 1:3.3) in 3.3s ure is a good
thing.
 
> Given this state of affairs, I do not think this issue should be
> considered a stopper for OOo 3.3.

I disagree. If it is easy to fix I think we should fix it..

Grüße/Regards,

René