Hi Jack,
I guess there are some serious problems with the open office website, or that I am a bumbling idiot; possibly both hold some truth.This quote: "<http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_source.html> and you can use m116. (Branch SRC680_m116)" suggests to go download the SRC680_m116 tarball.
Sorry of being unclear. :( I was not proposing to download a tarball but using the information on that page to get the m116 sources and as obviously no tarball exists the obvious solution is using cvs.
I am experiencing serious problems finding that download link. I can get the the "get_source" page, but not to the specific tarball from there. That page points to http://download.openoffice.org/index.html#source which does not specifically point to the latest (m116) build. The best I was able to find is the old 114 (version) which is not version 2.0 at all, it's the old version 1 drop. In general, I and my colleagues have found the open office website somewhat unintuitive in its navigation aids. I really hate to comment in the negative about such a great project, but it is quite discomforting to realize that I and my well-trained geek friends have problems finding source code drops for specific milestones.
As OOo is a fast moving target and you're obviously trying to build the latest and greatest it is very often only possible to use cvs to get the source.
Can someone point to the *specific URL* where the SRC680_m116 tarball can be found, and not to the general download page?
There are no secret locations for this, the complete source is managed using cvs, sometimes tarballs are prepared for convenience but not for this version. Volker P.S.: m116 is obsolete, m117 is the current latest/greatest ;) P.P.S.: Also no tarball available. P.P.P.S: Private mails regarding OOo questions routinely go to /dev/null -- If you like my work consider: http://www.scytek.de/donations.html PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
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