At 12:57 PM +0100 2/21/05, eric.bachard wrote:
>For the record, I'm experimenting a new installer for the future 2.0
>version of OOo on Mac OSX
>
>As a proof of concept, I have used  Terry Teague, Dan William & all
>installer, placed by Kevin Hendricks on #i32748#.
>As example, I have build an en-US version. BTW : this is the installer I
>use for realize french packaging of 1.1.x.
>
>Of course, it's not the original, because I have made some
>modifications, like postinstall script for automatic opening of the
>/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79 directory.  I'm actually working to add a new
>feature : while install, open a window, saying to the user that OOo is
>installing in this folder (Dominique More's suggesstion ).


Sorry I have been busy lately, and wasn't able to look at this until today.
I appreciate the efforts you and others have made on this.


I have some of the same comments as others - Mac users expect /Applications
rather /opt.

After the install was complete, the OOo install folder window came to the
front (good), but I forgot that the Installer was still running (finished)
- I don't think it had an adverse effect, but there might be some better
ways to handle things.


>- fix libxml2 bug (version mismatch sometimes)


I ran into this and was not able to get past it - I can't see how this
could happen "sometimes" - I would expect it to happen every time on
specific configurations. I was running OOo on Mac OS X 10.3.3, which has
libxml2.2, and the error message refers to the compatibility version 9.0.0
being higher than the library version 8.0.0.


What version of Mac OS X are you building on?


Of course, as Ed pointed out, this installer solution only works for
Panther (and I assume Tiger) users, not for Jaguar users. I guess when OOo
2.0 is released, we will produce a Jaguar based US English OOo 2.0 for Mac
OS X installation.


Re "Start_OOo" or "Begin_OOo" - you were asking about ownership - I don't
know why you just didn't contact me directly. Anyway, the original "Start
OpenOffice.org" is mine, and Kevin based his "Begin_OOo" on that for the
Panther installers. What you have in your installer package is some kind of
mixture. I have fixed some bugs in "Start OpenOffice.org" since the last
release (v1.0b9), and if there is any additional work to be done for 2.0, I
would try to do that, as well as fix some more bugs and make improvements I
have planned, in time for OOo 2.0 on Mac OS X. Whether "Start
OpenOffice.org" should be part of "your" installation, or available
separately, is something we can discuss (perhaps offline).


I will try to get past the libxml2 problem, and do some more testing.

>Regards,
>eric bachard

Regards, Terry



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