[Linux dev] [louis@openoffice.org: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 Beta SDK]

[oskar@xxxxxxxxxxx (Oskar Pearson)]

First new useful post with the new server :)

The observent will note I've changed (I hope) that the reply-to issue
is fixed too.

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> Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 Beta SDK
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> All,
> 
> OpenOffice.org is pleased to announce the beta version of the OpenOffice.org
> 1.0.2 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Linux, Solaris (Sparc), Windows and
> PowerPC.  
>  
>  **You can download it from the SDK page:
> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/
> 
> This new SDK is an add-on for the existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.2. It provides
> the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org
> APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org.
> The highlight of this SDK is the new Developer's Guide. This guide provides
> a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org API concepts, the
> OpenOffice.org UNO component model and how to use the API in the context of
> the different application areas. Sun Microsystems sponsored this
> documentation project and has made this whole documentation project
> possible. By taking this initiative, Sun Microsystems strengthens its
> commitment to OpenOffice.org. Sun is hoping to achieve the adoption of
> OpenOffice.org for customized solutions and to increase the number of users
> for both OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
> 
> The final version of the SDK is expected to be released within the next 6
> weeks. This beta is considered to be feature complete, and we will only add
> some bug fixes for the final release in March.
> 
> Therefore, interested developers should start using this SDK for their
> implementations. Feedback is welcome via email on dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and
> bugs should be reported as an IssueZilla task. All requests for enhancement
> and new features will be collected and go into the planning of the next
> version of the SDK.
> 
>  What is new in this SDK as compared to the
>  OpenOffice.org .0.1_aplha_SDK?
>  ******************************************
>  - It contains much more documentation.
>  - The new Developer's Guide is now part of the SDK. The SDK provides two
> versions: a PDF version for better reading/printing and an HTML version with
> cross-references directly to the IDL reference.
>  - An improved IDL reference with cross-references from each type to the
> Developer's Guide, where the type is described in detail or where it is
> referenced.
>  - There are more code examples. The examples section now includes an
> additional section for all the examples in the Developer's Guide. - There is
> an improved build environment for the examples, based on gnu make.
>  - All examples come with a gnu makefile, so that the examples can be built
> easily. Each makefile contains one or more run targets to simplify the use
> of the examples. The examples now have a default connection string.
>  - There is a new UNO component deployment tool (pkgchk). Some of the
> examples use this new deployment tool for deploying the created components
> in the appropriate office installation.
> 
>  Known problems
>  **************
> The SDK needs some symbolic links under Unix for building the C++ examples.
> Due to the fact that these links are missing in OpenOffice.org 1.0.2, the
> SDK contains a patch script for creating them. For patching your
> OpenOffice.org 1.0.2, please copy the oo1.0.2_sdk_linkpatch into your
> <office/program directory, move into the directory and run the link patch
> script.
> 
>  What is planned for the future?
>  *******************************
>  - An updated Developer's Guide for new APIs and for bug fixes
>  - Improved IDL reference (feedback is welcome to detect bugs and missing
> parts)
>  - An extended version of the deployment tool which can deploy
>  configuration items
>  - Improvement of the configure/setsdkenv_XXX scripts
>  - Improvement of the existing documentation pages
>  - More examples
>  - More IDE integration
> 
> --Juergen Schmidt, API Project
> 
> 
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