Hi Nicu, * Nicu Buculei wrote:
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.)
I just had a chat with Rene Engelhard (debain package manager vor OOo) and he confirms that you would still need a JRE for the runtime features. GCJ/GCC 4.x is only helpfull for compile time at the moment.
So .. Jean's initial statement is still valid (no matter if you are using Sun provided builds or not). At least the Unbuntu packages are 99.9% identical to those built by Rene.
André
