James, Thanks for your comments.
On Saturday 30 April 2005 12:26 am, James Wilson wrote: > Dear Bibliographic Developers > > I just wanted to check if any decisions have yet been made about what > language the Sun engineers are planning to implement the new > Bibliographic component in? There is not really a decision to be made, the Openoffice core code is C++ and that is what they will be working in. However we do not what the scope of the bibliographic 'work package' will be. The question for the bibliographic project would be if a skilled java developer came along and offered to build parts of our bibliographic wish list would we offer any discouragement ? > I ask this just to remind you that, if it's > to be implemented in Java, this will cause a lot of headaches and extra > work for several major Linux distros (e.g. Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu), > which are committed to only distributing open source code. (The problem > here is that in order to run something in Java, you need a Java VM, and > the free Java VMs not currently have the full capabilities of the Sun > Java VM.) > > This is currently a major problem with OOo on Linux, as Base is written > in Java. As I understand it some components of the Base form wizard are in Java. The Base (Database) code is in C++, along with the rest of Openoffice. Some of the interface code to other databases also uses java. > Here's a link to an article on this, which interviews some of > the main players. I hope you agree that it would be unfortunate to make > future versions of OOo even more difficult to run in a completely open > source environment. > > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/204244 > > (If you read the article, you'll see that the sheer number of replies > shows how strongly the community feels about OOo not relying on non-open > source software.) > > > > James > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
