From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2004-02-10T09:41:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion: Ruby + OpenOffice.org

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

> >I've been thinking about the idea of Ruby bindings for OpenOffice.org.
> 
> do you mean something related to UNO ?
> I'd love to see that, if my opinion matters :)


Yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about.  UNO.

UNO bindings could be used to add filters and write GUI programs that 
could run along-side OOo.  Let's say you think that OOo should have a 
calendar, or a dictionary that uses the dict protocol to extract 
definitions from the web.  You could do that in Ruby and turn it into an 
OOo add-on through the UNO bindings.

I think that's cool.


But ultimately, I'm not just interested on whether it's cool or not, but 
also on whether this would bring developers to OOo and/or Ruby.

Cheers,
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