Feature Request: Merging SAPUI5 features into OpenUI5, revise separation between SAPUI5 and OpenUI5

OpenUI5 could be a great framework for building modern enterprise-grade applications. But more you go inside, faster you realize that many features, essential for an enterprise app, for instance, export table content into Excel-file (sap.ui.export.Spreadsheet), and more complicated controllers, e.g., smart controls (sap.ui.comp), are available exclusively in SAPUI5, but not in its open-source counterpart.

It would be great to revise the border between SAPUI5 and OpenUI5, ideally to merge them completely, leaving in SAPUI5 only those features, that are directly related to integration with SAP-based backend (OData, PI, ERP, etc.).

Such a step can turn the SAPUI5 platform to the standard framework for any modern enterprise app, which will be SAP-ready out-of-box from the very first day.

[boghyon]

@pubmikeb There is a new initiative bringing sap.ui.comp modules to the OpenUI5 world. Would you be willing to share some thoughts on https://groups.community.sap.com/t5/coffee-corner/smart-controls-and-openui5/m-p/4723/highlight/true#M1124? Also check out this blog post by Vladimir Velinov for more context. The UI5 team is definitely taking your feedback seriously! 😉

[boghyon]

The sap.suite.ui.commons lib is already being open-sourced which is nice.

Welp, it’s now abandoned. https://github.com/sap-archive/openui5-suite/commit/7b6b647cd21f1d39742dc847f5a6d593f929aacb 😕 Actually right after a month since the start of the discussion here.