On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:51:07PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> [...] 
> >But the point stated is that the debian developers don't provide vanilla
> >OOo but a patched one.
> 
> There are two sets of debs provided. One is patched, and the other 
> isn't. Right now I am running a non-patched deb-installed OOo 1.9.106.

Then just extend this to: "not build in the same environment, with the
exact same tools".

> >Sais who? Sun will surely continue building with JDK.
> 
> Please join the jdk-tools list. This has been discussed at length.

I suggest you read it again or point me to a message that states that
Sun will build OOo using gcj.

Maintaining compatibility and collaboration with other developers
doesn't imply a switch in build environment.

> OOo 
> has been working with gcj for some time to make sure that any Java in 
> OOo runs with gcj. And we have a set of policies to Java in OOo able to 
> run on free JVMs. Though our emphasis, and testing is on gcj.

So what? Having it compile with gcj doesn't mean it is acutally
compiled with that.

> >The java-package fetches and installs Sun's JRE
> 
> Which package is this? I haven't seen it (on either Windows or Ubuntu).

You never did see Sun's JRE? The JRE is a seperate download, not part of
OOo. The verstion the script fetches is 1.5.0_3
 
> [...] 
> >I don't know why it takes a script to do this, but at least it is not a
> >modified version of OOo.
> 
> I am running a deb-installed un-modified OOo 1.9.106.

See above. And building from unpatched sources doesn't mean that it is
compiled with the same set of features, with the same
configure-switches. 

> >>And as I said earlier, all this, to get a more fragile product.
> >
> >Naa.
> 
> In my experience, alien is fragile for large programs.

OOo is no longer a large program package-wise. The biggest junk is
21 MB.

ciao
Christian
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