Hi Shaun, Am Mon, 2 May 2005 16:02:15 +0100 (BST), schrieb Shaun McDonald: > Hi all, > > I have installed Eric's 1.9.93 build of OpenOffice > (his one is easiest to download).
Eric B. or mine Eric H. ? > As far as I can see > the only special things that the installer does is > check that X11 is installed, check that the version of > the OS is 1.3 or greater, and finally open the > installed file. No that's not quite right, at least for my, Eric H., build. Currently I have 17, in words seventeen, single packages at the end of the OOo build process and which Mac User wants to install 17 packages? So Florian Heckl created a metapackage shell script that wraps those 17 packages into one Metapackage and this metapackage is the one to be installed. As for the rest you're right. I don't know how Eric B packs his builds and how Maho does. Last time I used a build from Pavel he had only tar.gz the 17 packages, which is the worst possible solution for Mac Users. One problem to be solved is that we need to get the package process into the official build process. Meaning that in the end after your build is finished you find the packed OOo in the install folder of instsetoo_native/unxmacxp.pro and needn't do a repacking as it currently is necessary for 1.1.x. > Considering this, I reckon that OpenOffice for Mac OS > X does not require an installer. All that needs to be > done is to OpenOffice on to a disk image with > something similar to Gimp.app. Florian Heckl is currently working on such a package. A few days ago we got noticed that OpenOffice.org 2.app exists. The author of the app himself told this list about this app and a few hours before Eric B. sent me an Email with exactly this app mentioned and the idea of creating such an app or better ask the author of the app if we can use it for official OOo. > I don't know if there > is a command line option for creating a disk image. > The utility Disk Utility does allow for the creation > of disk Images. A search for "disk image command line > mac os x" (without quotes) finds a few useful things > for creating disk images through the command line. > > As I was expecting Tiger at the end of last week, I > done a backup onto DVD, one of the things was the > OpenOffice 1.9.93 folder. I did manage to run > OpenOffice direct from the DVD, though it was slow! > This supports what I said above. It may be possible > that the binary generated in 10.3.9 will work in 10.4, > just there are some compiler issues. Yes. Florian Heckl currently tries to build OOo 1.9.x using gcc 4.0 and gcc 3.3 and Tiger. We hadn't had a Tiger before Friday. So please be patient here. We hope to get out Tiger ready binaries as soon as possibel but first everybody needs Tiger and a chance to compile OOo for Tiger and a chance to do bugfixes were needed. Next time we hope that someone is in WWDC and gets forthcomming Mac OS X Developerversions so that we can catch up earlier with developing for the latest Mac OS X. > The OOoStart application, whether in the current form > or in the form used by Gimp and proposed by someone > else a few days back on the list; will need something > like NeoLight or > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48356 > to have Tiger compatibility. Cool. Yes. I guess we need a spotlight plugin. Regards, Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterst�tzung, users-Mailingliste, MacOSX ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office f�r MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
