Fridrich Strba wrote:

Warning: This post is containing a rant. If you have weak nerves, please, do not read it.

Hello,

The porting project needs a porter to port OpenOffice.org on Mac OSX! You may say, that there is a porting team. I will firmly disagree. There is a group of Mac OSX "builders", but no porter. The aim of a port is IMHO not so much in providing binary packages for a given platform as in making it possible to build these binary packages _out-of-the-box_. This is not possible for the while. There is a serie of patches that allow to build scatered all around the place, but OOo is not buildable on Mac OSX using only build instructions and a fresh cvs checkout.

Fridrich:

I would be willing to be a 'porter' but I'm running Tiger, which has not been universally adopted. However, I will be sending in a signed JCA so that I can assist in building and finding those patches that work and those that do not.

Also, I would like to point out that there are a series of patches, contributed by Patrick Luby, that Eric Bachard is trying to work back into the current SRX645 series. With those patches, OOo 1.1.5rc3 builds on MacOSX without further massaging on Tiger and Panther. I would like to see someone assist Eric and get the effort completed.

Are you willing to assist Eric in getting this accomplished so we can find, fix and work back into the current MWS all of the patches.

And Eric is the point person on SRC680 as he has recently worked in macosx10 as the most recent child work space.

James McKenzie


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to