On 09/26/2012 02:14 AM, RGB ES wrote:
2012/9/26 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>
On 9/26/12 8:48 AM, Joost Andrae wrote:
Hi Alexandro,
soffice is an established file name for the binary. If there is a clash
with LO's naming scheme then why should AOO change the name? It's LO
that abandoned the name OpenOffice....
And if you take a look at the naming scheme of the API sun/star/... this
is something you cannot change that easily.
Kind regards, Joost
the point is simply that more stuff and functionality is depending on
this name. And if we consider to change it we have to collect all this
stuff first and should work on a reliable migration plan.
+1. At least on Linux, the "conflict" between AOO and LibO comes from
distro packaging: you can install both, AOO and the official LibO side by
side without problems.
Just for curiosity: is it possible to put a second launch script, so you
can start the program with both, soffice and, for example, aoo?
Regards
Ricardo
I agree with both Juergen and RGB. I don't know what the case is on
other platforms, but on Linux, LO basically reassigns the soffice binary
to libreoffice, the actual program name to launch libreoffice, via
symlinks. How to undo this is covered in the installation guide.
But I admit, since I only launched LO once and then deinstalled it, I
don't know if this comes into play later with using it. From what I saw
initially, it doesn't. It seemed happy to run with the symlinke disabled
from what I recalled.
Re inclusion of second launch script. Of course, this could be done, but
I'm wondering about further confusion with this approach. With Linux,
it's not a big deal but I don't know about Windows, Mac, etc...
I see at the moment no pressure to work on this and we have much more
important things to do. But feel free to start and keep us informed. And
before we do any real changes on the name in the code please inform us
about your finding and the migration plan. It's important that we don't
break things and avoid confusion where possible.
Juergen
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