Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

Looking at SCons ... ( ...or at least just the main page) I will give it a +1. I was particularly bought by this: Built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and past Visual Studio versions, including generation of .dsp, .dsw, .sln and .vcproj files. Gradle looks interesting too but

Re: A Complaint

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:35 AM, J. Myers wrote: > I installed the Open Office 4.1 thinking I was doing a good thing --- > just adding a processing program that was cheaper than Word. How can Word be compatible with Star Writer? > Now > I regret it and I am more

Re: A Complaint

This does not seem like a very constructive response - I suggest reading Regina Henschel's message instead. Unlike much of Apache's software, OpenOffice is intended to be used by normal end users. I wish every computer user used backups and revision control, avoiding a lot of misery. It is

Extension website: older URL give wrong CSS

By example see: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ This kind of URL is still indexed by search engines. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: A Complaint

Hi J. Myers, J. Myers schrieb: I installed the Open Office 4.1 thinking I was doing a good thing --- just adding a processing program that was cheaper than Word. OpenOffice is not a clone of Word and does not intend to be a clone of Word. Now I regret it and I am more than angry. I

[DISCUSS][POLICY?] Lost Features When Saving to ODF

[BCC to AOO Project Management Committee] A. THE SITUATION We have some situations of the following kind: 1. An user is working in Apache OpenOffice and makes use of various features that appear to succeed and the desired result is visible in the presentation. 2. When the working document

RE: Extension website: older URL give wrong CSS

FR web forum, I see the same (English) page when going to either of and . I am using Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 10 Pro. Was this a temporary problem? What details are different for you? Is it about

HELP WANTED! (RE: [MENTORING?] Guiding volunteers)

There has been some useful mechanical assistance toward guiding volunteers to projects. There is an experimental, alpha-level proof-of-concept "help-wanted" operation. It seems very encouraging and if AOO participates with it, that could be very useful (and worthy of blog and social-media

Re: svn commit: r1728955 - in /openoffice/trunk/ext_sources: 2e482c7567908d334785ce7d69ddfff7-commons-codec-1.6-src.tar.gz 3c219630e4302863a9a83d0efde889db-commons-logging-1.1.1-src.tar.gz 625ff5f2f96

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:37:11 -0800 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Will this make any earlier AOO source releases unbuildable from the > distributed source archive? The files are still in the repository, checkout earlier versions. This saves us some bandwidth and source package size, good catch. The

RE: svn commit: r1728955 - in /openoffice/trunk/ext_sources: 2e482c7567908d334785ce7d69ddfff7-commons-codec-1.6-src.tar.gz 3c219630e4302863a9a83d0efde889db-commons-logging-1.1.1-src.tar.gz 625ff5f2f96

Will this make any earlier AOO source releases unbuildable from the distributed source archive? - Dennis (realizing that this may open up a larger question about repeatability of older source releases) PS: Hmm, if we undertake changing the build system, there may need to be some work to

Re: [DISCUSS][POLICY?] Lost Features When Saving to ODF

On 2/7/2016 11:51 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... 3. Note that on saving to .xls, the rubber-stamp warning about possible loss of features occurs, but in this case the feature is not lost. There is no such warning when the feature in its unsupported form is transformed and saved as an .ods