Hi, Am Dienstag, 11. Juli 2006 10:55 schrieb Martin Kretzschmar: > > Kovacs Baldvin wrote: > > > I seriously consider instead to drop the whole openoffice.org-dev from > > > debian. Not openoffice, just the -dev. Really. If you choose instead > > > dropping that line, then people won't know why on earth does it work > > > differently > > Then how about not dropping the line, but instead, if the file is > missing, print a big fat warning, something like "you can't deploy > your stuff on Windows as is, unowinreg.dll is missing, see <link to > docs>, get it from > http://api.openoffice.org/source/browse/api/odk/source/unowinreg/win/ > (Windows C++ source) or > http://api.openoffice.org/source/browse/api/odk/bin/win/ (precompiled > dll)"
Good idea. Have a patch? ;) > > And note that there are extensions which are perfectly able to use > > openoffice.org-dev without unowinreg.dll (on Linux, though, no idea > > about Windows and whether C++ stuff also needs it, I don't think so, so > > use C++ or get unowinreg.dll) > > The file is there to provide Java access to the Windows registry, so > that your code can find the place where OOo was installed (the last > time). No registry on Unix -> file not needed. And for a Windows C++ > extension, you'll need a Windows OOo SDK anyway. OK, thanks for explanation for what this is for. Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
