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

On 11/16/10 14:02, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> 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)

Yes, in such downgrading scenarios the problem can be experienced, too.

>> 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..

Yes, see above.

-Stephan