Nicu Buculei wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I've just made a small change in Chapter 1, "What is OpenOffice.org?"
in the Getting Started book. On page 9, under "Minimum Requirements"
it said:
"Some OpenOffice.org features require Java. You can get the latest
version from Sun at http://java.sun.com/j2se "
I changed this to read:
"Some OpenOffice.org features (wizards and the database component) use
Java. To use those features, you need to have the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) installed on your computer. You can get the latest
version from http://www.java.com/. "
As OOo can be compiled with GCJ/GCC 4.x this is not necessarily true
anymore.
Of course, for the foreseeable future all builds coming from Sun will
need JRE but expect the ones coming from 3-rd parties to not need it
(Fedora does not need JRE, AFAIK Ubuntu will also not need JRE in the
next version etc.)
The question is: our documentation is made for OOo as built by Sun and
distributed from http://openoffice.org or is a general documentation for
OOo?
I should acknowledge my bias: I don't feel comfortable advertising a
proprietary software when Free/Open alternatives are available.
Good point, Nicu. I was correcting the bit about Java but I
probably should have added something about the alternatives to
Sun's JRE. I think at this point we are writing about the
official OOo as built by Sun, but it would be good to make the
user guides as general as possible.
Suggestions for better wording happily received!
Cheers, Jean
