Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
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Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#32Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.
> Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency What's the alternative library you see?
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#33Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#34Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.
I don't see anything wrong with it, I just think it's interesting.
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#35Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.
> Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency What's the alternative library you see?
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#36Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#37Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.
I don't see anything wrong with it, I just think it's interesting.
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#38Does that really mean that it's bundling those apps from the start or did it just download and install them at some point to do some local work on some prompt or job you ask it to? I don't see it making much sense to bundle it. I'm sure a LOT of LLM prompts are related with docs, excels, powerpoints etc, etc but don't really see it worth it for it to be bundled on the codex app from the get go, because otherwise, why…
I'm not sure. Someone who hasn't installed the ChatGPT (or Codex) apps yet could confirm this by installing the apps, seeing if that ~/.cache directory exists, then try running a prompt that needs Python or Node.js or LibreOffice and see if it downloads them when needed.
% ls ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/dependencies/native/libreoffice-headless
libreoffice manifest.json
Re: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
#39Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.