Hi Pinto, 
Am Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:42:35 -0700, schrieb Mr. Pinto:
> Hi,
>     I'm an OO.o and Mac user interested in a more native port of OO.o
> to the OS X platform. 

I guess that's the goal of most of the Mac Porters here. Currently 
there are plans inside the OOo community and already some efforts 
outside. 

> I have intermediate coding skills with
> familiarity in C++, Java and Perl.  I have lots of Unix/Linux shell
> experience and about a year of enterprise testing and junior
> development under my belt.

Sounds good. 

Welcome to OOo Mac Porting team. 

>     Basically, I'm looking for a good place to fit in and assist with
> the port project and I stumbled upon this address in the to-dos list. 
> I'm in the process of reading through the online FAQs trying to get a
> feal for how the ooo effort is organized.

Well organisation is a bit of a weak point for Mac OS X porting. We 
(the European Mac Porter that have time and that I know) meet us 
during Linuxtag (6/22-25/2005) in Karlsruhe and have a little talk 
about Mac OS X Port and its future. So some news are to come by the 
end of June 


> If someone could point me in the right direction to familiarize
> myself with the project and the tasks at hand (FAQs, relevant
> listserve, etc), that would be great.

First you should try to get familiar with the build process of OOo 
for X11 since this is the most current versions for both 1.1.x as 
current stable and 680/1.9.xxx as Milestonebuilds on the way to 2.0 
later that year - propably July/August. 

Buildinstructions can be found here 
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_680_X11.html> for current 
680. I'm planing an update to them since some things changed with 
the 10x+ milestones. 

Here <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_11_X11.html> you find 
1.1.x build instructions.

Please take a look at the archives of this mailinglists. There are 
some current issues when building OOo under Tiger. It's recommanded 
to use gcc 3.3 for Tiger builds since nobody of the developers I 
know so far has been able to build OOo 1.1.x or 680 using gcc 4.0. 
So to keep up with the ongoing development heading to 2.0 we stick 
with gcc 3.3 under Tiger and Panther for OOo 680 and later 2.0. But 
gcc 4.0 isn't forgotten. 

You should also do a search in Issuezilla to find current open 
Issues for Mac OS X builds. 

Feel free to ask. A dumb question is the one not asked. 

Regards, 
Eric Hoch

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