--- Deepankar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >There seems to be a lot of anger (for lack of a better word) about
> > the
> > >port not being done, although there is the NeoOffice project.
> >
> > Does any of that "anger" translate to support for the effort?
> > :-(
>
> Unfortunately not a lot of 'productive criticism'.
>
> There have been some suggestions such as doing a complete re-write in
> Java, which would solve the apparent "code-mess" problems which are
> there, as well as allowing native interfaces just by using swing, and
> also compiling using GCJ easily to all platforms which have Java
> support; I suppose this is feasible due to Sun supporting both
> projects.
Well, a complete rewrite is not much different from 'write from scratch' ;-)
The number of sucessful 'write from scratch' office suite prjoects is rather
low.
>
> Otherwise there is an idea of using the QT port for KDE, and moving it
> to the mac to give it a native interface.
>
> These are all suggestions - no concrete offers seem to be around
> though.
>
> Deepankar
>
>
=====
Sander
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