[Gambas-user] Beginner questions

[Laurent Godard]

Hi all,

After many years spent under windows (and mainly VB programming), i 
switched to linux 10 days ago

And then i found it !!! Tha Gambas project !! exactly what i was looking 
for ....

I'm a developper mainly actually involved in OpenOfice.org. I have some 
theoritical knowledge of C/C++ and java but i'm not experienced enough 
to write deep applications ...

Before diving into Gambas, i have some basic questions i didn't find the 
answers on the web site
- is Gambas self contained ? if i want to redistribut my programs, what 
will i need as dependancies
- licensing terms : am i allowed to sell my programs ? i am independant 
developper and event if i release all my sources under LGPL, am i 
allowed to work on a gambas project and be paid
- any idea of portability of UI under windows schedule ? I red it is 
planned but is the work going on ? I think this feature would give a 
huge boost to the gambas project

Now i want to speak about the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project
You may perharps know that OOo allow a lot of language to connect to it 
(c++, java, python, delphi, VB, perl, php (through com) ...)
OOo gives a framework for doing this called UNO
There are a lot of examples (mainly java and C++) that explain how to 
connect an application do OOo

Would it be interresting for Gambas ? Having an entire office suite 
accessible through a component ? I think (but i'm not sure at all) that 
only a bridge would be necessary
I can help giving the right links and guide among UNO, OOo API, ask the 
questions the the good developpers ... and so on
The final step would perharps be that OOo include the gambas component 
by default (but should be released as LGPL)
What do you think, is it valuable for you ?

Feel free to ask me for more details and please don't forget my 
beginner's questions ;)

Thanks again for this wonderfull project

Laurent
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