OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

twohot · #1 8th March 2011, 02:20 AM

So LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice eh? ... and has been forth coming with more features recently eh?

But I have a concern. How compatible are macros written for OOo with Libreoffice? I'm looking to write an extension for one of the two. OOo appears to have enough written on the subject. I don't know about LibreOffice and the #DocumentFoundation channel at Freenode is not always active.

Can someone advise if LibreOffice allows for Python Macros? If so, where can One get info/documentation/tips else OOo appears to be a clear leader in this area?.

jroa1 · #2 8th March 2011, 02:57 AM

I don't see why it would be any different. As far as I know, LibreOffice was made from the same source code as OpenOffice. So, it would stand to reason that the macros would be the same. The documentation should be the same as well. I could be wrong about this, though.

twohot · #3 8th March 2011, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by jroa1

I don't see why it would be any different. As far as I know, LibreOffice was made from the same source code as OpenOffice. So, it would stand to reason that the macros would be the same. The documentation should be the same as well. I could be wrong about this, though.

So why am I getting errors while following examples on this page?:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/...cript_Location

I have LibreOffice installed on F15-Alpha and I was trying to create a dummy UNO package following the example in the above page. Its an OOo example but I figured (like you) that it should work. It didn't

PatMcLJr · #4 8th March 2011, 04:09 PM

a peek at fedora 15 seems to indicate a change in support in favor of LibreOffice ?

twohot · #5 8th March 2011, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by PatMcLJr

a peek at fedora 15 seems to indicate a change in support in favor of LibreOffice ?

Yeah, it looks that way but I think you'll still be able to find OpenOffice.org in their repositories. Its only natural to find LibreOffice being discussed more by Fedora People, because they appear to be more active in development and less politically restrained.

That, however, does not solve my problem.

forkbomb · #6 9th March 2011, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by twohot

Yeah, it looks that way but I think you'll still be able to find OpenOffice.org in their repositories. Its only natural to find LibreOffice being discussed more by Fedora People, because they appear to be more active in development and less politically restrained.

I don't pretend to be a soothsayer, but I wouldn't expect OOo will stay in the repos indefinitely, for precisely the reasons you acknowledge. The Fedora Project would stop offering it in-repo if the upstream developers allow OOo to fall into disrepair/become abandoned (neither of which would surprise me).

As for your problem with the macros, I'd say the problem is upstream (i.e. not a Fedora bug per se).

twohot · #7 9th March 2011, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by forkbomb

As for your problem with the macros, I'd say the problem is upstream (i.e. not a Fedora bug per se).

My mind does a memory pointer replacement with 'Redhat' anytime I see the word 'upstream'. So how does Redhat affect an FSF software? I tend to think some of the 'sun.blah.blah' or 'StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(blah blah)' may have seen some changes in their wording or syntax. If so, what are these new wordings? There's got to be some documentation.

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

If you develop for OpenOffice, you have to agree to your code being used in Star Office: i.e. they sell it and don't pay you. If you develop for LibreOffice, you don't get ripped off. An easy choice!

Hey guys, I'm already using LibreOffice. I am not trying to decide which to use. I am wondering why I'm getting errors with my choice. I am pro freedom, that is why I use Fedora. I get suggestions that favour installing macros at /home/user/.libreoffice/3/user/scripts/python which I think should work .... but I was exploring the extensions (add-ons) or UNO packaging option. I'd like to deploy the macro from top-level as an add-on. That extension method seems to be problematic in LibreOffice

forkbomb · #8 10th March 2011, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by twohot

My mind does a memory pointer replacement with 'Redhat' anytime I see the word 'upstream'. So how does Redhat affect an FSF software? I tend to think some of the 'sun.blah.blah' or 'StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(blah blah)' may have seen some changes in their wording or syntax. If so, what are these new wordings? There's got to be some documentation.

Actually, upstream in the sense I used it above would refer to "whatever parties are currently maintaining LibreOffice." In other words, if you hit problems with things in LibreOffice that would have worked in OOo, I'd file bugs with LibreOffice rather than Fedora.

(As far as the relationship of RHEL/Fedora, RHEL is in general more or less downstream from Fedora - Fedora being sort of the testbed.)

wheels5894 · #9 9th March 2011, 12:42 PM

Libre Office is produce by the Document Foundation which seems to have taken over from the Open office group so Libre Office is the successor to Open Office. I downloaded the new version for Windows and it is a bit updated in things such as opening Office 2010 document formats.

DavidMcCann · #10 9th March 2011, 04:29 PM

Most distros seem to heading towards LibreOffice. The fact that OpenOffice seems to have lost all its developers, other than Oracle employees, doesn't help. If you develop for OpenOffice, you have to agree to your code being used in Star Office: i.e. they sell it and don't pay you. If you develop for LibreOffice, you don't get ripped off. An easy choice!

twohot · #11 11th March 2011, 07:03 AM

As the popular opensource browser (Firefox) puts it:

Well, this is embarrassing

It wasn't an upstream problem and it wasn't a downstream problem either. It was me.
I got basic Libreoffice applications installed and forgot to install libreoffice-pyuno

Sorry for the trouble guys!