...after the new types.rdb format that unoidl-write generates has been used
internally since LibreOffice 4.1 in 2013; following up on
6db34b6b33 "Directly build UNOIDL .rdb files from
.idl files" and its "The legacy tools idlc, regcompare, regmerge, and regview
are still contained in the URE or SDK for now."
The tools idlc and regmerge are deprecated but still shipped in the SDK for now.
The plan is to drop them completely for LO 7.5.
odk/examples/ and ure/source/uretest/ are adapted to use unoidl-write instead of
idlc and regmerge:
* unoidl-write does not use a C preprocessor and the # directives in .idl files,
it supports reading a single .idl file (containing an arbitrary number of
declarations) or a directory tree where each directory corresponds to a UNOIDL
module of the same name and each .idl file contains the declaration of the
(non-module) UNOIDL entity of the same name. For some of the odk/examples/,
that required moving individual .idl files into sub-directories named after
the respective modules. In odk/settings/std.mk, definitinos of IDL and
REGMERGE have been replaced with a new UNOIDLWRITE.
* unoidl-write always enforces reserved UNOIDL identifier restrictions (see
04af4e4f55 "[API CHANGE] Fix all bad UNOIDL
identifiers across offapi" and 6201792406
"Enforce the UNOIDL identifier scheme") (which idlc only enforced optionally
with -cid -we). That required renaming "my_module" in
odk/examples/DevelopersGuide/Components/CppComponent/.
* The new types.rdb format is not compatibly with LibreOffice < 4.1. Clients
generating extensions containing such files are advised to use appropriate
LibreOffice-minimal-version elements.
Change-Id: I1a248fd96e86ecbf407f829bc100d44bfe7f4e7d
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/130533
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
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